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On August 14, the World Health Organization declared a growing outbreak of #mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and other African countries a #global #health #emergency of international concern.

The alert marks the second time in three years that an international health emergency has been declared due to the rapid spread of the disease formerly known as #monkeypox.

The last mpox emergency designation was in July 2022, when an outbreak extended across 116 countries, impacting nearly 100,000 people, and killing about 200.

In the latest outbreak, more than 15,000 confirmed and suspected cases of mpox have been reported in Central and Western Africa along with 537 deaths
-- making the new outbreak deadlier than the one two years ago.

Yale epidemiologist #Chantal #Vogels, PhD, has been studying mpox;
and she led a team that developed novel genome sequencing approaches for viruses such as mpox to better investigate how they emerge and spread.

Vogels recently took a moment to share her thoughts on the latest mpox outbreak...

ysph.yale.edu/news-article/the

Yale School of Public HealthThe science behind the latest mpox global health emergencyOn August 14, the World Health Organization declared a growing outbreak of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other African countries a global