He works as a Red Cross worker who sprays an antiseptic in Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 2024
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MPOX It increased in parts of East, West and Central Africa in 2024, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare it to be a general health emergency that raises international anxiety in August. This was a little more than a year after it said that a precedent MPOX emergency has ended, which represents the first time that the World Health Organization announced two successive alerts on the same infection.
The emergency that ended in 2023 was driven by the Clade IIB variable from MPOX, previously known as …
