News-Medical.Net August 13, 2024
The WHO is poised to activate its last-resort alarm for the growing mpox outbreak in central Africa by declaring it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) – with the committee responsible for the decision meeting on Wednesday.
It would be only the eighth time the WHO has declared a PHEIC, and the previous declaration in May 2022 was also because of mpox, though that outbreak was caused by the less lethal clade 2 variant.
This time, concern centres around the deadlier clade 1b, which can be transmitted directly between humans through sexual contact.
At the same time – and for the first time ever – the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) plans to declare...
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