Monkeypox has been declared a global health emergency. What happens now?

Monkeypox has been officially declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organisation (WHO). 7NEWS

The WHO announced on Saturday that Monkeypox is a global heath emergency after multiple committee meetings.

The label - a “public health emergency of international concern” - otherwise only applies to the coronavirus pandemic and ongoing efforts to eradicate polio.New studies find that monkeypox can be spread through face-to-face contact “I have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced on Saturday morning.The United States identified its first two monkeypox cases in children on Friday, joining the 2000 probable or confirmed cases across the nation.What is monkeypox?

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