“Currently, more than 1,000 confirmed cases of monkeypox from 29 countries that are not endemic for this disease have been registered with WHO.
So far, not a single death has been registered in these countries, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.
According to him, infections were detected mainly (but not only) among men who had sex with men.
He also stressed that the risk of monkeypox spreading to non-endemic countries is real.
Earlier media reported that Canada's Chief Medical Officer Theresa Tam stressed that a disproportionate number of cases of this outbreak of monkeypox in the country have been identified among gay and bisexual men.
At the same time, she added that the risk of infection is not associated with any group of people, gender or orientation, and everyone can get infected.
Professor of Virology Anatoly Altshtein, Chief Researcher, National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N.F.
Gamalei, in an interview with NSN spoke about the situation with monkeypox.