WHO declares growing monkeypox outbreak a global emergency | USA TODAY
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as posted by the channelThe World Health Organization's director-general said the monkeypox virus can be stopped with the right strategies as he declared it a global emergency.
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The rare designation may help spur more investment in combatting the once rare disease amid a scramble for scarce vaccines. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the decision despite a lack of consensus among experts on the U.N. health agency's emergency committee, saying he acted as “a tiebreaker.” It was the first time a U.N. health agency chief has unilaterally made such a decision without an expert recommendation.
There is "a clear risk of further international spread," Ghebreyesus said in a statement. "So in short, we have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly, through new modes of transmission, about which we understand too little," he said. "... For all of these reasons, I have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern."
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