The new crown BA.5 has put many countries in the anxious atmosphere of fighting the seventh wave of the epidemic. Another epidemic also need us to aware–that’s monkeypox.

Monkeypox infections continue to soar and spread to 65 countries around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) also recently announced that it will reconvene a monkeypox expert committee on July 21 to decide whether the outbreak constitutes an “international concern for global public health”. Emergency” (PHEIC)
Since early May: a surge in monkeypox infections outside the countries of West and Central Africa, where the disease is endemic;
June 23: The World Health Organization convened an emergency committee of experts to determine whether monkeypox constituted the highest alert the World Health Organization could issue – a so-called public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).
But at the time, most told WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus that the situation had not yet reached that threshold;
On July 4, as of that time, the WHO recorded three deaths in the outbreak;
Data on July 11 showed that there were 9,647 known cases of infection in 63 countries around the world, a four-fold increase from a month ago. The monkeypox virus can cause a rash and fever, but fortunately, the death rate from the outbreak is still low;
On July 15, according to the latest situation, the United Nations health agency now knows that more than 11,000 cases of infection have been detected in 65 countries.
A second meeting will now be held as the number of cases rises.