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WHO declares monkeypox a global emergency amid surge in cases

WHO declares monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries a ‘public health emergency of international concern’. The World Health Organization has declared the monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries an “emergency of international concern”. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the decision to issue the declaration despite a lack of consensus among experts serving on the UN health agency’s emergency committee. Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Center on Global Health Law, told Al Jazeera there has been “an exponential rise in monkeypox cases in five WHO regions of the world”.

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