The amount of monkeypox cases in Europe has tripled during the last two weeks, surpassing 4,500 cases, which are mostly detected in people aged from 21-40 years, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge, said on Friday.
“The WHO European Region represents almost 90% of all laboratory-confirmed and globally reported cases since mid-May, and since my last statement on 15 June, six new countries and areas – taking the total to 31 – have reported monkeypox cases, with new cases tripling over the same period to more than 4500 laboratory confirmed cases across the Region,” Kluge said in a statement.
He added that the majority of the infections were detected in people aged from 21 to 40, with 99% of them being male, many of whom had had homosexual sexual contacts.
The WHO has not yet received any data on fatalities caused by the infection, he added.
Kluge called on the governments to introduce urgent and joint measures, saying that it is necessary to “scale up surveillance for monkeypox, including sequencing, and obtain the capacity to diagnose and respond to the disease.”
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