WHO convenes experts to decide if monkeypox is an emergency

WHO convenes experts to decide if monkeypox is an emergency GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization will convene an emergency committee of experts to determine if the expanding monkeypox outbreak that has mysteriously spread outside Africa should be considered a global health emergency. AP NEWS

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Tuesday he decided to convene the emergency committee on June 23 because the virus has shown “unusual” recent behavior by spreading in countries well beyond parts of Africa, where it is endemic.

“We believe that it needs also some coordinated response because of the geographic spread,” he told reporters...