Monkeypox and the Perils of Vaccine Nationalism
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 24, 2022
For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the World Health Organization may be on the cusp of declaring a different disease threat—monkeypox—to be a public health emergency of international concern. There are now more than 3,500 confirmed cases in the latest monkeypox epidemic, which has expanded steadily across 44 countries over the past ten weeks. Yesterday, a WHO emergency committee met in Geneva to discuss the epidemic, and some experts anticipate it will advise WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to make the emergency declaration.
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