WHO considers emergency classification for monkeypox

After more than 3,000 confirmed monkeypox cases have been reported in more than 40 countries, the World Health Organization is prepared to discuss whether the disease should be labelled the next pandemic.
Photo: Denis Balibouse/REUTERS / X90072
Photo: Denis Balibouse/REUTERS / X90072
by ulrich quistgaard, translated by daniel pedersen

Since May, when the first cases of monkeypox started appearing outside of Africa where the disease was already endemic, more than 40 countries have tallied over 3,000 cases in total.

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