On 13 August 2024, the Africa CDC declared the mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) recognised the Africa CDC’s declaration and were relieved that the World Health Organization (WHO) on 14 August declared the upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a [...]Read More... from Mpox: MSF responds to WHO declaring mpox a public health emergency of international concern| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Utsa Bose (Faculty of History, University of Oxford)| torch.ox.ac.uk
The WHO has removed hundreds of monkeypox deaths from its reported toll as the case fatality rate drops to just 0.2%. This is not a global emergency by any sane definition, says ex-WHO medic Dr David Bell.| The Daily Sceptic
The World Health Association recently declared a global health emergency amid rising cases of mpox. The current outbreak, which began in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DCR), is caused by a deadlier form of the virus than the one that spread throughout the world in 2022.| American Sexual Health Association
Weil in Afrika die Zahl der Mpox-Fälle durch eine möglicherweise besonders gefährliche Subvariante des Virus in die Höhe schnellt, ruft die WHO eine "Notlage internationaler Reichweite" aus. Experten halten eine Ausbreitung der Krankheit auch in Europa für möglich. Sie warnen aber vor Panikmache.| n-tv.de
Mpox (monkeypox) is a disease caused by infection with the mpox virus.| www.health.vic.gov.au
