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Evening Standard
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Robert Dex

Monkeypox: World Health Organisation declares global emergency over

The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was ending a 10-month-long global health emergency for monkeypox after almost 90,000 reported cases in more than 100 countries.

The virus, also known as mpox, was declared a public health emergency of international concern last July 2022 but the organisation’s emergency committee recommended it be downgraded.

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