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WHO says mpox outbreak is a global health emergency, and other top health stories
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WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has declared that the increase of mpox, formerly called monkeypox, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a number of other African nations constitutes a health emergency of international concern.
On 14 August, the WHO stated that mpox has the 'potential to spread further across countries in Africa and possibly outside the continent.'
Sweden's public health agency has already recorded what it says is the first case of a more dangerous type of mpox outside of the African continent.
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In this case a person has been infected during a stay in the part of Africa where there is a major outbreak of mpox clade I.
—Magnus Gisslén, state epidemiologist at the Public Health Agency of Sweden."— Magnus Gisslén, state epidemiologist at the Public Health Agency of Sweden.
Magnus added that "this case does not require any additional infection control measures in itself, but we take the outbreak of clade I mpox very seriously".
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1 Comments in Response to WHO says mpox outbreak is a global health emergency, and other top health stories
Who cares what the WHO says? They are not American government. And the 4th Amendment doesn't allow the American government to make them (the WHO) part of American government. The 4th Amendment allows us to be owners of ourselves - not that the 4th allows this, but that the 4th only seconds it, or upholds it. Ownership of self is inherent in each of us. But we gotta stand up for our freedom to own ourselves if we want to keep it. To do this, we need to recognize that we are people - flesh and blood - not names on paper.