Has the World Health Organization declared the end of the monkeypox threat?

2024-09-02 2024-09-02T09:17:23Z

Arab Weather - On August 14, 2024, the World Health Organization raised the highest level of global alert due to the re-emergence of monkeypox in Africa. A week after this announcement, a video spread on social media, whose publishers claimed that it represented the organization’s retraction of its previous announcement. The video shows a press conference by the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, saying that the spread of “M-Box” no longer constitutes an emergency.

Is the video circulating about the end of the monkeypox threat true?

But the caption accompanying the video indicated that the organization had withdrawn its emergency declaration regarding monkeypox. In fact, the video circulating dates back to May 2023, when the organization lifted the alert it had declared after the outbreak of the disease at that time. AFP showed that the video has nothing to do with the recent declaration.

In July 2022, the World Health Organization declared the Mpox virus (monkeypox) a global health emergency. Although the number of people infected with the disease has declined over the past few months, the WHO Director-General warned that the virus continues to affect communities in all regions, including Africa.