German live industry blasts WHO’s monkeypox claim
Event Management Forum has blasted the World Health Organisation's warning that festivals could be super-spreader events for the virus
News By James Hanley | 3 June 2022
Germany’s Event Management Forum has accused the World Health Organisation (WHO) of scaremongering over claims that summer festivals could be super-spreader events for Monkeypox.
The WHO warned earlier this week that Europe is at the epicentre of the “largest and most geographically widespread monkeypox outbreak ever reported” outside western and central Africa.
The virus spreads can be transmitted through close contact with an infected person, with Dr Hans Henri P Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe, saying reports to…
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