Chicago Records 2023's first Cluster of Monkeypox Cases — just as WHO officials declare global virus emergency OVER
The
World Health Organization has declared the
monkeypox global emergency over, just as this year's first cluster of cases emerges in America's third largest city.
Chicago has recorded 12 confirmed and one probable case of the virus spread by sexual contact between April 17 and May 5, the latest dates available. For comparison, the city has been averaging less than one case a week since February.
Nine of the new infections were in men who are fully vaccinated, city health officials said. None of the infected people have been hospitalized.
Raising the alarm, they warned of a 'resurgence' of the disease, now known as mpox, that is
spread via sexual contact and has so far sickened 30,000 Americans — the most in the world — and led to 42 deaths.
World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has declared an end to the emergency over mpox (pictured in December at the WHO headquarters in Geneva)
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