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Experts optimistic as monkeypox infections slow in Europe, US

A monkeypox ward set up at a government hospital in Hyderabad, India, in July, after India recorded its first monkeypox case. © Mahesh Kumar A/AP

More than 50,000 monkeypox cases have been recorded in the global outbreak, World Health Organization figures show – though transmission is slowing in Europe and the United States.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that a drop in new infections had showed the outbreak could be halted, as the United Nations agency has listed 50,496 cases and 16 deaths reported this year.

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