The World Health Organization has no evidence that the monkey pox virus has mutated, a senior WHO official said today, noting that the infectious disease, which is endemic to West and Central Africa, tends not to change.
Rosamund Lewis, head of the smallpox secretariat, which is part of the WHO Emergency Management Program, told reporters that mutations are usually fewer with the virus. Sequencing his genome, however, will help health authorities understand this outbreak.
According to Maria van Kerkov, head of the Department of Emerging Diseases and Zoonoses, the more than 100 suspected and confirmed cases detected in Europe and North America are not serious. “This is a situation that can be controlled, especially in countries where we are witnessing the spread of the epidemic in Europe,” he said, adding that the spread of the virus “could be stopped” in countries where it is not endemic.
Scientists are trying to understand the origin of the cases and whether anything has changed in the smallpox virus.
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