The Head of the World Health Organisation has declared the monkeypox outbreak "a global health emergency", the organisation's highest alert level.
According to the WHO, the outbreak is expanding in more than 70 countries and is an "extraordinary" situation which now constitutes a global emergency.
WHO's Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: "I have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern."
