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According to the World Health Organization, more than 6,000 monkeypox cases have been reported from 58 countries in the current outbreak.
UN agencies will resume a committee meeting in the week beginning July 18 or earlier to advise on declaring the outbreak of a global health emergency, WHO’s highest level of vigilance, Tedros said. Secretary Adhanom Gebreez is Geneva.
At its last meeting on 27 June, the Commission decided that this outbreak, with an increasing number of cases in both the normally endemic African countries and the world, is not yet a health emergency.
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“We continue to be concerned about the size of the virus and its spread around the world,” Tedros said, adding that the lack of testing could lead to more unreported cases.
He said that about 80% of cases occur in Europe.
Monkeypox is a usually mild viral infection that causes flu-like symptoms and skin lesions and has spread worldwide since early May.
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The mortality rate of previous outbreaks in Africa, which is now prevalent, was about 1%, but so far this outbreak does not appear to be so fatal in non-endemic countries.