The emerging viral illness joins polio and covid-19 in being deemed a public health emergency of international concern.
an advisory committee of outside experts to discuss the outbreak. At the time, there had been over 3,000 cases reported from 47 countries, as well as evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission in at least some areas outside Africa, where it had previously been endemic among rodents, occasionally jumping to humans.
In the group’s initial assessment, the experts argued that monkeypox would meet the criteria for a PHEIC under one or more of several different conditions.
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