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At their Wednesday press conference, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, raised concerns over the state of the globe.
To date, more than 5,000 monkeypox cases have been reported from 51 countries worldwide, according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
The World Health Organization reported that the Emergency Committee did not feel the current state of the monkeypox epidemic constituted a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).
Monkeypox Virus: The European Union's drug regulator European Medicines Agency said it had started formally reviewing the use of a smallpox vaccine Imvanex to treat a growing number of cases of monkeypox.
As people recover from COVID, their immune system is impaired. So people who have had COVID may be more susceptible to other infections.