Mpox Remains Global Public Health Emergency, WHO Warns
The Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Ghebreyesus, has warned that mpox continues to pose a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), a formal declaration of the risk of the disease to global health.
The WHO chief said the latest announcement was influenced by the continuous rise in mpox cases, including a recent surge in West Africa, and "likely undetected transmission in countries beyond the continent".
The latest WHO declaration comes after a meeting of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee held on 5 June, where global health experts reviewed the situation.
The upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its spread to neighbouring countries led to the first declaration, Ghebreyesus said. "Since then, the committee has met on three additional occasions, each time advising the director general that the event continues to constitute a PHEIC."
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Africa:
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Africa:
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Ghana:
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Kenya:
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Liberia:
Spike in Mpox Cases
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The National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) has announced an "alarming" increase in the number of mpox cases in the country, reporting 69 "active cases" nationwide. In a statement, NPHIL said the strains of the virus it has detected are "infectious and have been detected in neighboring countries".
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The Africa Centres For Disease Control has warned that the mpox epidemic on the continent is not yet over, as hundreds of new cases have been confirmed and thousands more suspected in various countries. In its latest report, the continental health watchdog said children and men are amongst those most affected by the disease, while noting that
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Africa continues to experience rising cases of mpox, with Uganda reporting the highest number of confirmed daily cases in the region, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its situation report.
WHO has warned that "wherever mpox outbreaks are not quickly contained", it becomes difficult to stop human-to-human transmission, potentially risking a "sustained transmission in the
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The Africa Centers for Disease Control has said escalating fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has caused more than 600 mpox patients to leave treatment centers. The country is the epicenter of the latest disease outbreak in the region, which the Africa CDC declared in 2024 a "public health emergency of international concern".
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Since Africa CDC’s declaration of Mpox as a Public Health Emergency (PHECS) on 13 August 2024, the outbreak has continued to escalate across the continent.
