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As the number of patients with monkey pox, an infectious disease that causes blisters all over the body, continues to increase, the World Health Organization has decided to hold an emergency meeting.
To consider whether to declare a state of emergency, the European Union has started to purchase a vaccine.
First of all, this is reporter Jung Young-tae.
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In the UK, where the first case of monkey pox was confirmed on the 7th of last month, the number of patients increased to 470 in just over a month.
[James McFargin / UK, monkey pox self-quarantine: (The hospital) told me not to come to the hospital because he wasn't ready to take care of the patient yet.]
In Quebec, Canada, close contacts were vaccinated as close to 100 confirmed cases came out. started.
[Ludvik Moquin/Canada, monkey smallpox vaccination: vaccine immune system still has to wait 7 to 10 days for the immune system to work.]
According to the World Health Organization, WHO, on the 21st of last month, there were about 80 confirmed cases in 12 countries, but 39 countries , increased significantly to 1,600 people.
72 deaths have been reported in the endemic region of Africa, with 32 of the 39 endemic countries, more than 80%, mainly in Europe and the Americas.
The European Union, which became urgent, decided to purchase 110,000 doses of the vaccine first.
The WHO will convene an emergency committee on the 23rd to review the declaration of an international public health emergency.
The highest level of alert issued by the WHO currently includes COVID-19 and polio.
[Ghebreyesus/WHO Director-General: The global outbreak of monkey pox is very unusual and worrisome.
It is affecting more and more countries.]
The WHO said that the name monkey smallpox was given when the virus was first discovered in monkeys in 1958, but it will announce a new name because the origin is still unclear.
(Video Edit: Jeon Min-gyu)
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