The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared mpox a global public health emergency, as U.S. health officials continued to warn about the risk of its spread. The WHO issued an emergency for ...

This follows an earlier emergency declaration for a 2022-23 global outbreak. The rapid spread of a new form of mpox across Africa has sounded alarms.

Earlier this week, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the mpox outbreaks were a public health emergency, with more than 500 deaths, and called for international ...

WHO Declares Mpox a Global Health Emergency This outbreak in the Congo began with the spread of an endemic strain and is the second in two years to prompt a global emergency designation.

The WHO previously declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern, or PHEIC, during an outbreak in 2022, which spread to countries where the virus is not endemic, including the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency after the virus reached more than 70 countries around the world. WHO Director General Tedros … ...

It's taken our global and domestic public health authorities two years more to formally acknowledge that for most Americans, the COVID-19 emergency has been long over. Start your day with Reason.

T he World Health Organization ended the Covid-19 global health emergency on Friday, saying it was time for countries to transition from treating Covid as an emergency to dealing with it as a ...

T he World Health Organization on Thursday declared the outbreak of a novel coronavirus a global health emergency, an acknowledgement of the risk the virus poses to countries beyond its origin in ...

The World Health Organization has declared that monkeypox is a public-health emergency of international concern, despite divisions among members of the committee of experts who advise the agency ...

The move to label the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, the highest level of alert the WHO can issue, is expected to marshal new funding to fight the outbreak and to ...

The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency on Thursday. Here's what the "extraordinary event" means.