The Covid-19 outbreak forced governments around the world to revamp their pandemic response programs, invest in drugs and vaccines and establish viral surveillance systems. Now monkeypox is putting those upgrades to the test -- and theyāre falling short. Public health departments have been grappling with limited testing, insufficient vaccine doses, inadequate access to antiviral treatments and data gaps that are making it hard to understand the full picture of the monkeypox outbreak. The WHO isĀ recommending governmentsĀ in countries without cases to step up surveillance, train health workers on detection and raise awareness about transmission. In countries where the virus has already been detected, the health agency recommends governments create response plans with the āgoal of stopping human-to-human transmissionā with a focus on high-risk groups. A lack of resources at sexual health clinics, the frontline of the current outbreak, has been another weakness in the current international response, particularly because symptoms differ from those seen in previous outbreaks and because monkeypox can potentially be mistaken for other infections like herpes or syphilis. #monkeypox #MonkeypoxCases #MonkeypoxVirus https://flip.it/zxEIg1 https://www.instagram.com/p/CgaQpi3BfWG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
