Posted on 07/27/22
| News Source: i24
WHO Europe forecasts over 27,000 monkeypox cases in 88 countries by August 2
Israel's Ministry of Defense announced on Wednesday that the country received the first shipment of thousands of Jynneos vaccines against monkeypox produced by the Bavarian Nordic company.
The vaccines were delivered to the logistics center in Shoham and are going to be distributed among the medical institutions in the coming days. According to Israel's Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz, the shipment contained 5,600 doses with another 5,000 vaccines expected to arrive shortly.
Meanwhile the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday that the monkeypox outbreak, officially declared a "global health emergency" last week, could last for months, according to Reuters.
With cases currently doubling every two weeks, WHO Europe forecasts over 27,000 monkeypox cases in 88 countries by August 2, up from 17,800 cases in nearly 70 countries at the latest count.
Anne Rimoin, an epidemiology professor at the University of California, US, told Reuters that health organizations should “get in front of this.”
"It's clear the window of opportunity for doing so is closing," Rimoin was quoted as saying.