WHO Ends Mpox Global Health Emergency, Calls for Vigilance (1)

Mpox is no longer a global health emergency, but more needs to be done to eradicate the sometimes deadly virus that causes unsightly, painful rashes, the World Health Organization said.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus lowered the global alert level on mpox, previously known as monkeypox, more than a year after declaring the spread of the virus an extraordinary event.

“Lifting the emergency declaration does not mean the threat is over, nor that our response will stop,” he said in a briefing Friday.

Electron micrograph of mpox virus particles.

Even so, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention maintains mpox’s continent-wide public health emergency ...