<!-- wp:html --><p>DNP handout via Reuters</p>
<p>The World Health Organization has made the unusual plea to Brazilians to stop killing monkeys over concerns that they are the main vector for <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-why-we-should-stop-calling-it-monkeypox">monkeypox</a>.</p>
<p> “What people need to know is that the transmission we are seeing <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/it-may-be-too-late-to-stop-monkeypox-becoming-endemic-in-the-us-and-europe">is happening between humans</a>,” WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris said in Geneva.</p>
<p>The plea comes after reports of physical attacks on monkeys in Brazil, where 10 monkeys were poisoned in the city of Rio Preto and others were found in various states of torture. Harris reiterated that the primates are not to blame for the uptick in cases, which are spread human-to-human.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/who-warns-brazilians-to-stop-killing-monkeys-over-monkeypox-spread?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
DNP handout via Reuters
The World Health Organization has made the unusual plea to Brazilians to stop killing monkeys over concerns that they are the main vector for monkeypox.
“What people need to know is that the transmission we are seeing is happening between humans,” WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris said in Geneva.
The plea comes after reports of physical attacks on monkeys in Brazil, where 10 monkeys were poisoned in the city of Rio Preto and others were found in various states of torture. Harris reiterated that the primates are not to blame for the uptick in cases, which are spread human-to-human.
