Monkeypox is a 'global health emergency,' says WHO.
Still, the WHO's declaration is “better late than never,” Dr. Boghuma Titanji, an infectious diseases doctor at Emory University in Atlanta, told theBut with the delay, “one can argue that the response globally has continued to suffer from a lack of coordination, with individual countries working at very different paces to address the problem,” she added.
“This inability to characterize the epidemiological situation in that region represents a substantial challenge to designing interventions for controlling this historically neglected disease,” Tedros said about the West and Central African countries where
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