WHO Says Monkeypox May Have Been Spreading Undetected

WHO Says Monkeypox May Have Been Spreading Undetected
A section of skin tissue, harvested from a lesion on the skin of a monkey, that had been infected with monkeypox virus, seen at 50X magnification on day four of rash development in 1968. CDC/Handout via Reuters
Jack Phillips
By Jack Phillips, Breaking News Reporter
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Officials with the World Health Organization (WHO) say the sudden rise in monkeypox cases worldwide suggests that it has been spreading in an undetected manner for some time.

“We don’t really know whether it’s too late to contain. What WHO and all member states are trying to do is prevent onward spread,” Dr. Rosamund Lewis, the WHO’s monkeypox technical lead, said at a June 1 press conference in Geneva.

Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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