{"id":38753,"date":"2022-05-30T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=38753"},"modified":"2022-05-30T14:47:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:47:47","slug":"smallpox-poses-a-moderate-risk-to-public-health-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=38753","title":{"rendered":"Smallpox poses a moderate risk to public health &#8211; WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate , 30 May , 2022 | Society.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The World Health Organization says that smallpox poses a moderate risk to general public health globally, given that cases have been reported in countries where the disease is not common.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The risk to public health can be high if the virus is used to establish itself as a human causative agent and to spread to groups at higher risk of serious diseases, such as young children and people with weakened immune systems,&#8221; the WHO said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the agency, the sudden appearance of smallpox in several non-endemic countries indicates an undetected transmission over time and recent events are intensifying.&nbsp;The WHO expects to report more cases as supervision in endemic and non-endemic countries expands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Let&#8217;s add<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of May 26, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/uk\/news\/1979058-u-sviti-pidtverdzheno-257-vipadkiv-zarazhennya-mavpyachoyu-vispoyu-vooz\">total<\/a>&nbsp;of 257 laboratory-confirmed cases and approximately 120 suspected cases of monkeypox were reported in 23 countries.&nbsp;No fatalities were reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the forecast of the Chief State Sanitary Doctor Igor Kuzin, cases of monkeypox will be registered in Ukraine, but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/uk\/news\/1978863-v-ukrayini-mavpyacha-vispa-bude-ale-yiyi-lokalizuyut-golovniy-sanlikar\">there will be no<\/a>\u00a0outbreak .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/\">Ukrgate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate , 30 May , 2022 | Society. The World Health Organization says that smallpox poses a moderate risk to general public health globally, given that cases have been reported in countries where the disease is not common.\u00a0 Quote &#8220;The risk to public health can be high if the virus is used to establish itself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":38752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11447],"tags":[349,554,857,2399,1854,10786],"class_list":["post-38753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-society","tag-economy","tag-kyiv","tag-society","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-world-news","tag-world-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38765,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38753\/revisions\/38765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}