MP Mahmoud Qassem, a member of the House of Representatives, called on the government in general and the Ministry of Health and Population in particular, to disclose its information about the so-called “monkeypox” virus, after it spread in Europe, causing great panic and fear for many European citizens. The newspaper stated that Portugal joined the UK and confirmed five cases of “monkeypox”, which was first discovered in 1970 in the Republic of the Congo. According to various international media outlets, the monkeypox is a zoonotic disease, that is, transmitted from animals, in this case from monkeys. According to the information provided by the World Health Organization, its fatality rate ranges from 1 percent to 10 percent, which leads to deaths among younger people. At the beginning of this week, the UK Health Security Agency said that the number of people infected with monkeypox among the British population rose to three people in one week.
