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UN health agency chief declares monkeypox a global emergency

LGBTQ activist Craig Thompson, CEO of health provider APLA Health talks during a news conference at Out Here Sexual Health Center, in the Baldwin Hills section of Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 20, 2022. "We have hundreds of people on a waiting list waiting for vaccine appointments but we can't schedule appointments until we know how many more doses of vaccine we have and when," said Thompson, CEO of health provider APLA Health, which was founded in the 1980s to fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) FILE - The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a media conference at an EU Africa summit in Brussels on Feb. 18, 2022. The World Health Organization says monkeypox still does not warrant being declared a global emergency even though it's spreading in more than 70 countries. The decision announced on Saturday was the second time within weeks that WHO’s emergency committee declined to classify the unprecedented outbreak of the once-rare disease as an emergency. (Johanna Geron/Pool Photo via AP, File) FILE - This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a monkeypox virion, obtained from a sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Two children have been diagnosed with monkeypox in the United States: a toddler in California and an infant who is not a U.S. resident, health officials said Friday, July 22, 2022. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File) FILE - This 1997 image provided by the CDC during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox, which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), formerly Zaire, and depicts the dorsal surfaces of the hands of a monkeypox case patient, who was displaying the appearance of the characteristic rash during its recuperative stage. The World Health Organization is convening its emergency committee on Thursday, July 21, 2022 to consider for the second time within weeks whether the expanding outbreak of monkeypox should be declared a global crisis. (CDC via AP, File)
UN health agency chief declares monkeypox a global emergency