Regarding “monkeypox,” whose number of infected people is increasing mainly in Europe and the United States, the CDC = Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it has ordered an additional 2.5 million vaccines, saying that “the number of infected people is expected to increase further in the future.” ..
CDC Director Warensky held a meeting on the 15th, expressing a sense of crisis that the number of monkeypox infected people reported in the United States exceeded 1,400 and “the number of infected people is expected to increase further in the next few weeks.” rice field.
In addition, the US government has announced that it will supply approximately 130,000 new vaccines to each state and has ordered an additional 2.5 million vaccines from a Danish pharmaceutical company.
So far, the US government has secured nearly 7 million vaccines, of which 5 million will be available from the end of this year to the middle of next year.
According to the CDC, 12,333 infected people have been confirmed by the 15th of this month in 62 countries and regions where “monkeypox” has not been established, of which 2835 in Spain, 1859 in Germany and the United Kingdom. The number is 1856, which is high mainly in Europe and the United States, but infections have also been reported in South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and so on.
WHO = World Health Organization will meet again on the 21st of this month with an urgent expert committee to consider whether the spread of monkeypox is a “public health emergency of international concern”. I have decided.