Prognosis
Monkeypox Isn’t International Public Health Emergency, WHO Finds
A medical laboratory technician displays a suspected monkeypox sample at a microbiology laboratory in Madrid, Spain, on June 6.
Photographer: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images
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The World Health Organization opted against calling the recent monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.
The outbreak is “clearly an evolving threat,” the WHO said in a statement Saturday, though it doesn’t constitute an international public health emergency “at this moment.” An emergency committee convened on Thursday to discuss the outbreak.