Sunday, August 25, 2024 - The Director General of the World Health Organization has called for global concerted action to control a new mpox outbreak, announcing a response plan that will require at least $135 million over the next six months.
On Monday this week, the WHO declared that the increase of
mpox, formerly called monkeypox, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a
number of other African nations constituted a health emergency of international
concern.
On 14 August, the WHO stated that mpox has the 'potential to
spread further across countries in Africa and possibly outside the continent.'
Agencies of different countries including Nigeria have
announced infection cases of the virus, with state health agencies put on
standby.
On Friday, Tedros sounded a note of caution;
"Let me be clear: this
new mpox outbreak can be controlled and can be stopped," Director-General
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a speech to WHO member states on Friday,
later posted on social media platform X.
"Responding to this
complex outbreak requires a comprehensive and coordinated international
response," he said.
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