In a first, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MSc, decided on his own to declare the global monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.
“We have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly through new modes of transmission, about which we understand too little, and which meets the criteria in international health regulations,” Tedros said in a statement.
These are the reasons, Tedros explained, that he made the declaration himself after an emergency committee that he convened for a second time was unable to come to a unanimous