US EditionUN health agency convening experts meeting to decide if mpox outbreak in Africa is global emergency
- The World Health Organization's head will convene an expert group to consider declaring the mpox outbreak in Africa a global emergency due to increasing cases.
- In the first half of 2024, reported mpox cases match all those from last year, with 50 cases confirmed recently in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda.
- A new deadlier form of mpox has emerged in a Congolese mining town, potentially spreading more easily and having a 10% fatality rate.
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WHO to convene International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on new Mpox variant
The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Director General announced that he is convening an emergency committee to advise on whether the new outbreak of Monkeypox (Mpox) constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
Mpox could be declared a global emergency after WHO calls emergency meeting
WHO calls an emergency meeting over the spread of monkeypox (Picture: AFP via Getty Images) The World Health Organisation has called an emergency meeting in order to address an international outbreak of the deadly monkeypox virus. Since the current strain of the virus was first detected in the Democratic Republic of Congo in April, it has evolved to become even more infectious and deadly – killing up to one in 10 people who catch it. Now the vir…
WHO convenes emergency committee to assess mpox risk
The head of the World Health Organization has convened an expert group to determine whether the growing spread of a deadlier strain of mpox represents a public health emergency of international concern. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he activated the Emergency Committee on Wednesday in light of the growing spread of mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the potential for further spread within and outside Africa. “Th…
WHO calls emergency committee on mpox spread
GENEVA — The World Health Organization’s chief announced Wednesday he was urgently convening an expert committee to advise on whether the growing mpox outbreak in Africa should be declared an international emergency. Since last September, cases have surged in the Democratic Republic of Congo due to a strain of the virus which has now been detected in nearby African countries. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that given the spread outsid…
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