The global health emergency for Monkey Pox (MPox), a viral infection that affected more than a hundred countries with confirmed cases, has been ended by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday after nearly a year.
The WHO had declared MPox a public health emergency of international concern in July 2022 and maintained this position in November 2022 and February 2023.
The organization’s emergency committee met on Wednesday and advised the WHO’s Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, to lift the emergency status for the disease. Based on this advice, Ghebreyesus announced the termination of the emergency status.
This means that the situation caused by MPox, which spreads through direct contact with body fluids and leads to flu-like symptoms and pus-filled skin sores, has been controlled.
The WHO chief stated that there was a nearly 90 percent drop in MPox cases reported in the last three months compared to the previous three months. The WHO’s most recent report shows that over 87,000 MPox cases have been verified worldwide from the beginning of 2022 until 8 May of this year.
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