Forbes August 14, 2024
Topline
The World Health Organization declared an international health emergency Wednesday over an escalating mpox outbreak in Africa, joining the continent’s top public health body—warning the disease could snowball without immediate steps to contain it and stoking fears a deadlier mpox pandemic could be on the horizon.
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The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the African Union’s health watchdog and the top public health body on the continent, said a growing mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring countries constitutes a “public health emergency of continental security” on Tuesday.
The emergency designation is the agency’s first since launching in 2017 and comes amid growing concern among scientists over...
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