VIENNA/TOKYO -- Monkeypox, a tropical disease with symptoms similar to smallpox, has prompted the World Health Organization's latest international health emergency declaration at a time when the international community is still fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly, through new modes of transmission, about which we understand too little," WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference Saturday after a meeting of the U.N. health agency's emergency committee.
