The World Health Organization will convene a meeting later this month to determine whether the mpox outbreak occurring in Africa still constitutes a a public health emergency of international concern.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared in August that the "upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a growing number of countries in Africa" constituted a public health emergency of international concern.

The mpox strain at the center of the outbreak is separate from the strain that caused the 2022 outbreak in non-endemic........

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