Monkeypox is not yet a global health emergency, the WHO has ruled, although director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he is deeply concerned about the outbreak. 7NEWS
Monkeypox is not yet a global health emergency, the World Health Organisation has ruled, although director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he is deeply concerned about the outbreak.
So far this year almost 1500 cases and 70 deaths in central Africa, where the disease is more common, have also been reported, chiefly in the Democratic Republic of Congo."I am deeply concerned about the monkeypox outbreak, this is clearly an evolving health threat that my colleagues and I in the WHO secretariat are following extremely closely," Tedros said on Saturday.
The "global emergency" label applies only to the coronavirus pandemic and ongoing efforts to eradicate polio, and the UN agency has stepped back from applying it to the monkeypox outbreak after advice from a meeting of international experts.
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