At least seven monkeys in Brazil have died after being poisoned or harmed. Police say they think people attacked them out of a misplaced fear of monkeypox.
"The concern should be about where it's transmitting in the human population and what humans can do to protect themselves from getting it and transmitting it," Harris said."They should certainly not be attacking any animals."
The recent reports of attacks on monkeys are not the only ones in Brazil, according to Dener Giovanini, the coordinator of an organization called Renctas, an acronym for the National Network to Combat Wildlife Trafficking. He told G1 that cases of stoning, persecution and poisoning of monkeys have been recorded in several places in Brazil as monkeypox cases have risen.
Giovanini warned that these attacks are due to a lack of information. He did not immediately respond to an inquiry from NBC News. Monkeypox is not primarily transmitted by monkeys; rather, until the current outbreak, the virus was most commonly found in and spread by rodents. Harris explained that monkeypox got its name because the virus was first identified in a group of monkeys in a lab in Denmark in 1958.The WHO has in fact been working with experts and partners to
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