Monkeypox: World Health Organization declares public health emergency of international concern

The rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak represents a “public health emergency of international concern”, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a media briefing on Saturday. Monkeypox has “spread around the world rapidly through new modes of transmission through which we understand too little,” Tedros said.

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