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“We have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly through new modes of transmission, about which we understand too little,” says the WHO's director general.
The emergency declaration mostly serves as a plea to draw more global resources and attention to an outbreak.
The chief of the World Health Organization said the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation.
A global emergency is WHO's highest level of alert but the designation does not necessarily mean a disease is particularly transmissible or lethal.
The chief of the World Health Organization said the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation.