WHO calls emergency meeting to decide if to declare a global health emergency after 3,200 monkeypox cases confirmed
More than 3,200 confirmed monkeypox cases and one death were reported to the World Health Organization as part of the current outbreak.
He added that cases in non-endemic countries were still predominantly among men who have sex with men. The meeting of experts was convened by the WHO to decide whether to declare monkeypox a global health emergency, however, the organisation said it did not expect to announce any decisions made by its emergency committee before Friday.Declaring monkeypox to be a global emergency would mean the UN health agency considers the outbreak to be an "extraordinary event" and that the disease is at risk of spreading across even more borders, possibly requiring a global response.
Many scientists doubt that any such declaration would help to curb the epidemic, since the developed countries recording the most recent cases are already moving quickly to shut it down.Monkeypox has sickened people for decades in central and west Africa, where one version of the disease kills up to 10 per cent of people infected.
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