Panel to Help WHO Mull if African Mpox Outbreak Is Emergency
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The World Health Organization will convene a panel of advisers to help determine whether a deadly outbreak of mpox in Central Africa constitutes an international emergency.
Children and adolescents have been most affected in the outbreak that comes from a mutated strain that appears to be fast-spreading and has been detected in at least six African countries. There have been almost 500 deaths related to the infection in the Democratic Republic of Congo alone, where the variant was first reported less than a year ago.