{"id":83715,"date":"2024-08-16T14:21:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T10:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=83715"},"modified":"2024-08-16T16:19:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T12:19:39","slug":"who-declares-global-health-emergency-amid-mpox-outbreak-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/world\/83715\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO declares global health emergency amid mpox outbreak in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the mpox (monkeypox) outbreak in parts of Africa a public health emergency of international concern, the BBC<\/a> writes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The highly contagious disease – formerly known as monkeypox – has killed at least 450 people during an initial outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/span><\/p>\n

It has now spread across parts of central and east Africa, and scientists are concerned about how fast a new variant of the disease is spreading and its high fatality rate.<\/span><\/p>\n

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the potential for further spread within Africa and beyond “is very worrying”.<\/span><\/p>\n

“A co-ordinated international response is essential to stop this outbreak and save lives,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the mpox (monkeypox) outbreak in parts of Africa a public health emergency of international concern, the BBC writes. The highly contagious disease – formerly known as monkeypox – has killed at least 450 people during an initial outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It has now spread […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,47,110,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-society","category-health","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}