Monkeypox virus has become the primary concern in different countries after an increase in positive cases. World Health Organizationalso declared it a global health emergency.

Monkeypox virus is a member of the Orthopoxvirus genus in the family Poxviridae and it usually occurs in tropical rainforest areas in central and West Africa but after migrating with humans in transferred to many countries in the world.

The virus gets transmitted through physical contact including intercourse. The clothes of infectious are sufficient to spread the virus to another person who is in contact with the affected one. As per the WHO information, contact through these mediums can affect any person-

• Face to Face Contact
• Skin-to-skin contact
• Mouth-to-skin contact
• Being in touch with the infected person

India has discovered its first case of monkeypox in Kerala and the samples of the affected person were sent to the National Institute of Virology, State Health Minister Veena George informed about the found symptoms of monkeypox over a person in Kerala. George also told that the man was in contact with a person abroad who was having the monkeypox virus there.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesuslabeled the virus as “a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC)” he further said “Although I am declaring a public health emergency of international concern, for the moment this is an outbreak that is concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially those with multiple sexual partners,” he told in a media briefing in Geneva.

This year the total cases of monkeypox reached 16,000 in more than 75 countries and a total of five deaths have been recorded in Africa.

Professor Lawrence Gostin, at Georgetown Law in Washington, D.C. said “The right result is clear- not declaring an emergency at this point would be a historic missed opportunity,” she also said “We cannot afford to keep waiting for diseases to escalate before we intervene,” in between growing the tension among health agencies in the world.

Vaccine-maker Adar Poonawala said today in an interview given to the new media agency in which he told that he is investing his own funds to import a few million doses of a Danish smallpox vaccine which can be used to treat if there is a larger breakout of the infection in any patient in India.

 He also said “We are talking to them…. That’s a decision the government of India will eventually have to make with the experts- should we, like other nations, start stockpiling a small quality, just a few million doses of the vaccine. I am prepared to import it at risk at my cost, initially, in small volumes. Eventually, the government will have to decide on a health policy,” said vaccine maker Mr. Poonawala.

The world still remembers the fear of the Coronavirus and still, the memories of losing lives are in our heads after declaring the virus a global emergency we should be aware that the world could not face that deadly circumstance.