Agencies – Geneva:
The World Health Organization has declared Mboxx no longer a global emergency, nearly a year after the outbreak of the disease, formerly known as monkeypox, began worldwide.
“I am pleased to announce that I have accepted the advice of the Em-Box Emergency Committee, to cancel the highest level of warning,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference online.
This comes a week after the World Health Organization announced that it no longer considers COVID-19 a global health emergency of international concern.
“Despite the cancellation of the two emergencies related to Mbox Smallpox and Covid-19, the risk of new waves of the two viruses still exists,” Tedros said, adding, “The two viruses continue to spread and cause death.”
The Mbox virus has existed for a long time in central and western Africa, but in May of last year cases of infection were detected in Europe and North America, and then in the rest of the world, mostly among gay men.
In July 2022, the World Health Organization declared the Mbox virus a global health emergency of international concern, but the number of people infected with the disease, which causes fever, muscle pain, and large skin ulcers, has decreased significantly since then.
More than 87,000 injuries and 140 deaths were recorded in 11 countries during the global outbreak, according to the World Health Organization.
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