Although the threat of a monkeypox (MPOX) outbreak remains, the World Health Organization decided to lift the international emergency due to the decrease in cases.

“The African Union, through its Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, maintains the continental alert” as a measure to protect the population.

The disease has affected more than 150,000 people since 2022, with at least 377 deaths. The announcement of the MPOX international emergency lifting was made on Friday, September 5, by the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, highlighting the decline in cases “in particularly affected countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.”

However, he emphasized that “the lifting of the emergency does not mean that the threat is over or that our response will stop.”

Monkeypox “was the second international emergency due to this viral disease that the WHO had declared, following the one it declared between 2022 and 2023. In that case, numerous cases also occurred in European and American countries, while this time the outbreaks were primarily limited to African nations.”

The WHO president insisted that this is not the time to reduce investment, collaboration, and solidarity, particularly in health care in the most affected countries on the African continent.

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Source: rtve

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