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The World Health Organization has declared a fast-spreading mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency as the agency seeks to contain the spread of the potentially deadly virus.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus last called mpox a public health emergency of international concern in May 2022, when cases of a milder strain erupted globally. When the WHO lowered its alert level a year later, cases in Africa continued to increase.
Now a mutated strain of mpox — a virus that causes unsightly, painful rashes and lesions — has spread to at least six African countries, infecting about 15,000 people and killing more than 500 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo this year alone. The variant was first reported in the DRC less than 12 months ago
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The World Health Organization has declared a fast-spreading mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency as the agency seeks to contain the spread of the potentially deadly virus.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus last called mpox a public health emergency of international concern in May 2022, when cases of a milder strain erupted globally. When the WHO lowered its alert level a year later, cases in Africa continued to increase.
Now a mutated strain of mpox — a virus that causes unsightly, painful rashes and lesions — has spread to at least six African countries, infecting about 15,000 people and killing more than 500 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo this year alone. The variant was first reported in the DRC less than 12 months ago
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00:00Last week, I announced that I was convening an emergency committee
00:05under the International Health Regulations
00:08to evaluate the upsurge of MPOCs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
00:14and other countries in Africa.
00:17Today, the emergency committee met and advised me that, in its view,
00:24the situation constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.
00:29The detection and rapid spread of a new clade of MPOCs in eastern DRC,
00:35its detection in neighbouring countries that had not previously reported MPOCs
00:40and the potential for further spread within Africa and beyond is very worrying.
00:46It is clear that a coordinated international response is essential
00:50to stop these outbreaks and save lives.