Monkeypox experts discussed Thursday whether the World Health Organization should classify the outbreak as a global health emergency.
A second meeting of the WHO's emergency committee on the virus was held to examine the worsening situation, with nearly 15,400 cases reported from 71 countries, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But a majority advised the WHO's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus that the situation, at that point, had not met the threshold."I need your advice in assessing the immediate and mid-term public health implications," Tedros told the start of the meeting, which lasted more than six hours. Overall, 98 percent of infected people were gay or bisexual men, and around a third were known to have visited sex-on-site venues such as sex parties or saunas within the previous month.
Tedros said the first committee gathering helped delineate the dynamics of the outbreak, but he remained concerned about the number of cases. Tedros also said information coming from endemic countries in Africa was "very scant", making it hard to characterize the situation in the region and design interventions.
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