Monkeypox cases continue to rise globally, especially in Europe, but the World Health Organization is yet to set a date for a second meeting for its emergency committee on the disease to meet.
The World Health Organization has said that 5,322 laboratory-confirmed cases of monkeypox had been reported to it in the current outbreak, 85 per cent of which are in Europe.Infections had now been reported in 53 countriesThough case numbers are rapidly increasing, the United Nations health agency has not set a date for its emergency committee on monkeypox to convene for a second meeting.
A surge in monkeypox cases has been reported since early May outside the West and Central African countries where the disease has long been endemic."Eighty-five per cent of cases are in Europe, followed by the African region, the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Pacific," she said.
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