Disease Outbreaks <br />Are Becoming More Frequent, WHO Says.<br />The emergencies director of the World Health Organization (WHO) made the comments on June 1, citing climate change and other environmental factors.<br />Unfortunately, that ability to amplify that disease and move it on within our communities <br />is increasing —, Mike Ryan, WHO Emergency Director, via Reuters.<br />... so both disease emergence and disease amplification factors have increased, Mike Ryan, WHO Emergency Director, via Reuters.<br />Other WHO officials point to the unusual spread of monkeypox as an indication of increased transmission of infectious diseases.<br />It’s an unusual situation, Dr. Sylvie Briand, WHO Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases Department, via Yahoo News.<br />Before, we had [monkeypox] only in certain countries. Now it’s out of the box, Dr. Sylvie Briand, WHO Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases Department, via Yahoo News.<br />While health officials are concerned about the spread of monkeypox, widespread vaccinations are not likely to be necessary.<br />We will not need vaccinations of the general public, Dr. Daniel Lopez-Acuña, Former WHO Crisis Management Director, via Yahoo News.<br />Health officials also caution against notions that monkeypox is only spread through gay sex or is confined to gay populations.<br />It’s not a gay disease — the transmission could have happened at a business conference or a political rally, Dr. Roger Paredes, Trias i Pujol Hospital, <br />via Yahoo News.<br />Officials urge standard containment practices in combatting the spread of increased infectious diseases.<br />We need to identify cases, take good care of them and make sure they isolate and then do <br />contact tracing, Dr. Roger Paredes, Trias i Pujol Hospital, <br />via Yahoo News.<br />In addition, officials are clear that diseases such as monkeypox can be contained.<br />Collectively, the world has an opportunity to stop this outbreak. There is a window, Dr. Rosamund Lewis, WHO’s Leading Monkeypox Expert, via Yahoo News
