China News Service, July 27. According to a CBS report, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials said on the 23rd local time that the country found its first pregnant woman with monkeypox cases in 2022.
According to reports, the pregnant woman has given birth successfully, and the mother and newborn are in good condition. The pregnant woman's monkeypox did not transmit to the fetus during her pregnancy.
The newborns were injected with immune globulin, an antibody treatment approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the report said.
However, the CDC warns that pregnant women are more likely to face serious consequences from monkeypox.
Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus.
The typical clinical manifestations of monkeypox are fever, rash, and swollen lymph nodes, and may lead to a series of complications.
Previously, several European and American countries have reported multiple monkeypox virus clusters.
The WHO said that monkeypox cases are often found in West and Central Africa, and it is not normal for confirmed and suspected cases reported in many countries without any travel history to monkeypox-endemic areas.
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced on the 23rd local time that the current monkeypox outbreak has constituted a "public health emergency of international concern" (PHEIC).
This is the highest level of public health alert that WHO can currently issue.