The World Health Organization condemns the attacks against "monkeys" due to smallpox
The World Health Organization confirmed today, Tuesday, that monkeypox has nothing to do with monkeys, after it was reported that these animals were attacked in Brazil.
"People need to know that the transmission of the virus," WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said during a regular press conference in Geneva in response to a question about reports that dozens of monkeys were poisoned and some were injured in less than a week in the Rho de Preto Reserve in Rio de Janeiro. The current happens among humans.
Other monkeys have been stoned, chased and poisoned in different Brazilian cities, according to news reports from the Renctas association to combat the illegal wildlife trade.
Brazil recorded more than 1,700 cases and one death from monkeypox, according to the statistics of the World Health Organization, and at the global level, it recorded more than 28,100 injuries and 12 deaths.
Harris explained that this virus can be transmitted from animals to humans, but the current spread of the epidemic in the world is attributed to humans.
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