WHO says mpox outbreak in Africa is international public health emergency

The World Health Organization has said the outbreak in Africa of mpox, the disease formerly known as monkeypox, is serious enough to declare a ‘public health emergency of international concern’, the category used in the past for Ebola outbreaks, Covid-19 and a 2022 mpox surge in Europe.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the WHO, said the situation was ‘very worrying’ and warranted the ‘highest level of alarm under international health law’. He highlighted the emergence of clade Ib in the east of the DRC and its detection in neighbouring countries

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