Tedros reported approximately 16,500 cases of monkeypox and 75 deaths from 75 different countries worldwide this year during a news conference.
We currently have an outbreak that satisfies the requirements in the International Health Regulations and has spread quickly throughout the globe via new mechanisms of transmission.
I have determined that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern because of all of these factors," he stated.
The 11 Member States (MS) of the Africa Union (AU) account for almost 12 percent of all recorded cases, according to the Africa CDC, and have the highest case fatality rate (CFR) in the world out of the 75 nations with documented cases.
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, the African continent has experienced
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