‘New variant of mpox spreading very quickly and will pose risk to remainder of world’ – WHO

The World Health Organisation says mpox has been referred to as a world emergency to "stop it getting worse" as a brand new variant of the illness is "spreading very rapidly".

A spokesperson for the World Health Organisation, Dr Margaret Harris, instructed Sky News there are "no signs it has gone beyond Africa yet".

But she warned it had unfold to international locations in Africa which have by no means seen it earlier than and have "a lot of contact" with the remainder of the world, posing a world "threat".

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