A Crimson Cross employee spraying chlorine-based disinfectant in Goma within the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 2024
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Mpox surged in components of East, West and Central Africa in 2024, prompting the World Well being Group (WHO) to declare it a public well being emergency of worldwide concern in August. This was simply over a 12 months after it mentioned an earlier mpox emergency was over, marking the primary time the WHO has declared two such alerts consecutively over the identical an infection.
The emergency that led to 2023 was pushed by the clade IIb variant of mpox, previously generally known as…
