A Red Cross worker sprays chlorine-based disinfectant in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, in August 2024
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Mpox It peaked in parts of East, West and Central Africa in 2024, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare it a public health emergency of international concern in August. It was the first time the WHO has declared two consecutive alerts for the same infection since it declared the end of an mpox emergency just over a year ago.
The outbreak, which ended in 2023, was driven by the clade IIb variant of mpox, formerly known as…
