After discussions and disagreements on the subject, the World Health Organization (WHO) decided to raise alertness to the highest level, in light of the increasing trend of cases worldwide.
The declaration of the global state of emergency came after a second meeting on the matter, as well as rumors in the last day that indicated that the World Health Organization is expected to take the unusual step.
The chairman of the organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, noted that more than 16,000 cases of monkeypox have been discovered so far in at least 75 countries.
In doing so, the virus joins two other crises that exist simultaneously in the present: the corona virus, which was declared an epidemic in March 2020 and has already killed more than six million people, and polio, a disease that the organization is trying to eradicate.
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