WHO Director General Dr. Tedros about mpox outbreak

"The most recent of those is the outbreak of mpox over which I declared the public health emergency of international concern less than 2 weeks ago. So far this year more than 18,000 suspected cases of mpox with 615 deaths have been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone. Already exceeding last year's total, which was itself a record. Of particular concern is the rapid spread of a new strain of the virus that cause mpox called clade 1b..."