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Symptoms ‘can knock people off their stride for several months’, a WHO official warned

The World Health Organisation is encouraging countries to consider surveillance and contact tracing in a bid to slow the spread of the virus.

The World Health Organization's chief said Saturday that the monkeypox outbreak was a deeply concerning evolving threat but did not currently constitute a global health emergency. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus convened a committee of experts on Thursday to advise him whether to sound the UN health agency's strongest alarm…

GENEVA: The World Health Organization's chief said Saturday that the monkeypox outbreak was a deeply concerning evolving threat but did not currently amount to a global public health emergency.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has decided not to declare monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. This may change in the future.

The World Health Organization opted against calling the recent monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.

The World Health Organization said the escalating monkeypox outbreak in nearly 50 countries should be closely monitored but does not warrant being declared a global health emergency

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The World Health Organization said Friday that European summer festivals should not be cancelled due to the monkeypox outbreak but should instead manage the risk of amplifying the virus. A surge of monkeypox cases has been detected since May outside of the West and Central African countries where the disease…