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The World Health Organization on Thursday released a new report which brings together information on the non-communicable disease from 194 countries. Non-communicable diseases have now become the world’s leading cause of disability and death.
'WHO urges affected countries to identify all cases and contacts to control the outbreak and prevent onward spread,' Who chief Tedros further said.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday warned that there was a 'real' risk of monkeypox 'becoming established' in countries where it is non-endemic. The warning from the agency came when more than a thousand cases have now been confirmed in such countries. World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the WHO was not recommending mass vaccinations against the virus. He said that no deaths had been reported so far. "The risk of monkeypox becoming established in non-endemic countries is real," Tedros told a press conference.
As of Saturday, there were 92 confirmed cases of the disease in countries where monkeypox is not endemic.
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