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The World Health Organization warned on Thursday that more imported cases of monkeypox could soon be found in Europe after Sweden announced it had received the first case of the disease that has killed at least 548 people since at the beginning of the year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo due to an infectious and dangerous type of virus.

The organization announced, on Wednesday, that the spread of monkeypox in Africa has now become a global health emergency, which is the highest level that the authority can give.

In total, 38,465 cases of the disease have been reported in 16 African countries since January 2022, and 1,456 deaths, with a 160 percent increase in the number of cases in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to the Agence France-Presse reported from. data provided last week by the African Union Health Centre.

Shortly after Sweden announced that it had detected the first cases of the new epidemic in Europe, the WHO Regional Office for Europe said that “this is a clear sign of the interconnectedness of our world.. .cases of this new type will be seen in the European area in the coming days and weeks.

On Thursday, the Swedish Public Health Agency announced that the first infection with a new type of monkeypox was found outside of Africa.

The agency reports that a “negligent person” in Stockholm “has been diagnosed with monkeypox type 1. This is the first infection caused by type 1 found outside the continent of Africa.”

Olivia Wigzell, a part-time official at the Swedish agency, announced at a press conference that “a person was infected during a visit to Africa where there is a large monkey epidemic caused by type 1.”

The agency explained in a statement that Sweden is qualified to “safely diagnose, isolate and treat people infected with monkeypox,” stressing that “treating a person infected with monkeypox in that country does not pose a threat to the general public, the risk which the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) currently considers to be very low.”

The risk is very low

The center explained to Agence France-Presse the message that the monkeypox infection is caused by type 1, which has returned to the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since September 2023.

In the Republic of Congo, which has a population of about 100 million, now all the provinces are affected by this epidemic.

The World Health Organization considers it “important not to discriminate against visitors or countries/environments.”

He added, “Only by working together, sharing data, and taking the necessary public health measures, will we be able to control the spread of this virus,” noting that it is necessary to avoid imposing travel restrictions and closing borders.

The Minister of Health of the Republic of Congo, Samuel-Roger Campa, announced on Thursday that, according to the latest report, “the country has reported about 15,664 infections and 548 deaths since the beginning of the year. “

As of August 3, the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 455 deaths and 14,479 infections in 25 of the 26 provinces of the Republic of Congo.

According to the Minister, the provinces of South Kivu, North Kivu, Chubu (east), Equateur, Nord Ubangi, Chuapa, Mongalla (north) and Sankuru (central) are the most affected.

Campa stressed that by collecting internationally, “we implement all the necessary methods to monitor and treat cases” for free.

The virus is more dangerous

According to a statement issued by the United States Department of Health on Wednesday, “The vaccine will be an important part of the response to this epidemic, the United States is offering 50,000 doses of the Genius vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”

The Danish pharmaceutical laboratory, Bavarian Nordic, whose shares rose on the stock market on Thursday, announced that it intends to produce about 10 million doses of the vaccine by 2025.

Monkeypox is an infectious disease caused by a virus that is transmitted to humans by infected animals, but can also be transmitted between humans through direct physical contact.

By 2022, a global epidemic of type 2 has spread to nearly 100 countries, mostly affecting gay men. This epidemic caused the death of about 140 people out of about 90,000 infected.

The disease broke out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the virus was first detected in humans, in 1970, and spread to other countries.

The disease causes high fever, muscle pain and skin rash.