The World Health Organization is set to meet to decide if monkeypox is a global health emergency.<\/p>\n
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The World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO)\u00a0emergency committee will meet next week to determine whether monkeypox is a \u201cpublic health emergency of international concern,\u201d it announced Tuesday, signaling an increasing level of concern about the outbreak.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI think it\u2019s now clear that there is an unusual situation, meaning even the virus is behaving unusually from how it used to behave,\u201d WHO\u00a0Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s also affecting more and more countries and we believe it needs also some coordinated response because of the geographic spread.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Elevating monkeypox to a public health emergency of international concern would give it the designation that COVID-19 received in early 2020.<\/p>\n
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Important differences with COVID-19:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n