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Mpox Is a Global Health Emergency (Again). It Didn’t Have to Be This Way.

On today’s episode of the Big Take podcast, why the latest outbreak could have been avoided — and what it will cost to beat it.

Health workers with children being treated for mpox in a treatment room at the Munigi treatment center in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Aug. 17.

Photographer: Arlette Bashizi/Bloomberg
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The World Health Organization declared the last mpox global emergency over in May 2023. And just over a year later, here we are again.