WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Saturday that he reconvened the emergency committee “in light of the evolving monkeypox outbreak with over 16,000 reported cases from 75 countries & territories.”
For the WHO to declare a “public health emergency of international concern” means that an alarm has been made for a coordinated international response to the spread of disease as well as the possibility for funding to be allocated and international efforts for sharing treatment and vaccines. While effective treatments and vaccines for monkeypox are already available, these supplies are not enough. /TISG
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