World Health Organization Considers Declaring International Monkeypox Emergency

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Sunday that he might declare an international health emergency due to the outbreak of monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighboring African countries.

DRC researchers warned in June that a new, faster-spreading, and more dangerous strain of monkeypox was spreading in the war-torn eastern half of the country. The new strain, known as Clade-1b, was originally detected among sex workers near the Rwandan border in September.

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