Monkey pox: three suspected cases of monkey pox in Morocco

He did not indicate the places of detection of the suspected cases, nor the identity of the three people.

The Ministry of Health has just published a “surveillance and response plan” for the detection and treatment of cases of monkeypox and for health protection.

Monkeypox, a less dangerous cousin of smallpox eradicated forty years ago, has made its sudden appearance in recent weeks in countries where it is normally only very rare: Europe and North America.

As cases continue to rise outside endemic areas of Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday confirmed a situation “atypical“, but she thought it possible to “stopper“this transmission of the disease between humans.