[Global Times Comprehensive Report] Monkeypox epidemics have appeared in many places around the world, and stigma incidents have intensified.
According to a report by Agence France-Presse on the 9th, a World Health Organization spokesman said on the same day that the current monkeypox epidemic is human-to-human rather than animal-to-human transmission, and has nothing to do with monkeys. Do not harm, discriminate or stigmatize any animal or infected person.
Monkeypox virus is present in several animals, mainly rodents.
The virus was named monkeypox because it was first detected in monkeys at a Danish zoo, but monkeys were not the main spreaders of monkeypox and were not associated with the outbreak.
There have been reports of monkeys being attacked or poisoned in Brazil.
In one week, 10 monkeys were poisoned in a nature reserve in the Rio Preto region of the state of São Paulo.
Animal rescuers suspect that the monkey attack was linked to three previously confirmed cases of monkeypox in the area.
At present, more than 1,700 cases of monkeypox have been diagnosed in Brazil. At the end of last month, it was confirmed that a monkeypox infected person died unfortunately, and some people were angry with the monkeys for this.
At the end of 2016, an outbreak of yellow fever broke out in Brazil. Many monkeys also contracted the virus and died in large numbers, causing panic among the local people, worried that monkeys could spread the epidemic.
Some animal protection people said that people should pay more attention to their own protection than harming animals.
(Zhen Xiang)