The World Health Organization(WHO) declared on Saturday that monkeypox is now a “public health emergency of international concern” as cases continue to rise rapidly.
Since May, there have been an estimated 16,000 cases identified across more than 60 countries, but so far there have only been five confirmed deaths from the disease.
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“We have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly through new modes of transmission, about which we understand too little, and which meets the criteria in international health regulations,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said when announcing the emergency.
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