The continent asked for more say in global health decisions after Covid. It now has that. The mpox declaration is a test of this new power
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Indiscriminate: A technician in Madrid with monkeypox samples. Anybody can acquire the virus if they have had close contact with an infected person. Photo: Pedro Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Imagesn the past two decades, the World Health Organisation has declared eight public health emergencies of international concern.
“A global outbreak occurred in 2022 largely because the 2017-2019 outbreak in Nigeria was ignored by the global community,” he said.“We warned everyone about it,” Placide Mbala, an epidemiologist at the National Institute of Biomedical Research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo told the publication
In the past few days, cases have been reported further ashore in Sweden, Thailand and Taiwan, with a new sexually transmissible strain driving the spread.
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