More than 10,000 cases have been identified in around 60 countries. Europe remains by far the epicenter of the current wave, with 8,238 cases in 35 countries.
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The threat is taken very seriously. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Thursday, July 14, that its emergency committee will meet on July 21 to determine ways to stem the outbreak of monkeypox. The bar of 10,000 cases has been crossed. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), authors of the most recent data on the subject, now lists 11,068 confirmed cases in 65 countries.
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The committee must also rule on the qualification “public health emergency of international concern”, the organization’s highest level of alert. This is the second time that the WHO emergency committee has met to look into monkeypox. It had dismissed the increase in the alert level at its previous meeting on June 23.
Europe remains by far the epicenter of the current wave, with 8,238 cases in 35 countries, according to figures from the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CEDC), dated July 12. The bar of 500 cases has been crossed in five European countries: in Spain, the most affected country on the Old Continent with 2,034 confirmed cases, followed by the United Kingdom (1,735), Germany (1,636), France (721) and the Netherlands (503).