And first case of monkeypox is reported in the Gard: in Nîmes. This is what the Regional Health Agency confirmed this Wednesday to France Bleu Gard Lozère. The patient is cared for at the CHU de Carémeau.
The latest report from Public Health France, established last Thursday, reported 330 confirmed cases of infection in France.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday that the global outbreak of monkeypox was a health threat whose development was very worrying, without yet reaching the stage of a global health emergency. The director general of this UN agency, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, had convened a meeting of experts on the issue last Thursday to find out whether the WHO should trigger its highest level of alert in the face of the epidemic, which affects mainly Western Europe.
A spike in monkeypox cases has been detected since early May, far from central and west African countries where the disease has long been endemic. More than 3,200 confirmed cases and one death have been reported to WHO from around 50 countries where the disease is not endemic this year.
