As the mpox "emergency" continues, the United Kingdom shows how achieving and sustaining disease elimination has to be the next priority - ISS-G20 Laboratorium Repository

On 9 February 2023, the International Health Regulations Committee met to assess the public health risk posed by mpox (monkeypox) globally. In their report they concluded that in their assessment, mpox continues to constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, a decision which Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO endorses.

Although there has been a decline in cases globally, and a sharp decline in the WHO European Region in particular, the threat from the disease has not gone away. There is still a high risk of mpox being imported from one country to another, both within the European Region and from other regions where infection continues to circulate.

Achieving and sustaining elimination of infection in our region has to be the next priority.

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