NEW DELHI: The Covid-19 pandemic isn’t over yet. But there already are reports of another viral infection called monkeypox spreading in Europe. No such case has been reported in India yet.
The first case of the viral infection in humans, which otherwise infects simians, was reported in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Infectious disease experts say there have been very few cases of monkeypox outside central and west Africa in the past 50 years. That’s why the sudden spread of the disease in Europe in unusually high numbers has raised an alarm. The World Health Organization has called an emergency meeting to discuss the outbreak.
