An emergency committee of WHO, which is based in Geneva, met early Wednesday to advise WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on whether the disease outbreak constitutes a "public health ...

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The spread of a newer strain of mpox in Africa led the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the disease a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on Wednesday. This newer ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox to be a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on Wednesday "Today, the Emergency Committee met and advised me that in its view ...

For the second time in three years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that mpox, an infectious viral disease previously known as monkeypox, presented a global health emergency. The ...

WHO’s emergency committee met Wednesday and declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern, which is “the highest level of alarm under international health law,” Dr. Tedros ...

Senator Chuck Schumer urged the health secretary to declare an emergency to keep other regions from experiencing the ...

The World Health Organization has declared a “public health emergency of international concern” in response to a large outbreak of Clade 1 mpox — thought to be more severe than the ...

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The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared that the mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a "public health emergency of international concern." (Getty Images) As the ...