WHO to weigh whether monkeypox is a public health emergency of international concern
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By Naomi Thomas, CNN The World Health Organization will convene an emergency committee meeting to assess whether the monkeypox outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a news briefing in Geneva on Tuesday.
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The WHO said Tuesday it would hold an emergency meeting next week to determine whether to classify the global monkeypox outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern.
By Naomi Thomas, CNN The World Health Organization will convene an emergency committee meeting to assess whether the monkeypox outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a news briefing in Geneva on Tuesday.
The World Health Organization will convene its emergency committee to determine if the monkeypox outbreak that has mysteriously spread beyond Africa warrants being declared a global health emergency. More than 1,600 cases and nearly 1,500 suspected cases have been reported this year in 39 countries.
Declaring monkeypox to be an international health emergency would give it the same designation as the COVID-19 pandemic and mean that the normally rare disease is a continuing threat to countries globally.
WEDNESDAY, June 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- An emergency committee of independent experts will meet next week to determine whether the growing monkeypox outbreak that has spread to dozens of
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