Mike Ryan, WHO: Gone are the days when countries could prepare for very specific threats

"Gone are the days when countries could prepare for very specific threats, because many countries are facing multiple threats at any one given time...with a (mpox)vaccine that costs $141 a dose, we want to vaccinate 5 million people in Congo, that's going to cost you a billion Dollars. If I had a billion Dollars tomorrow would I be spending it on mpox vaccine? Maybe I'd spend it on making sure my measles coverage is better...countries face real trade-offs. Real difficulty...Mpox has become an issue because it's seen as an international health threat, not because it's necessarily killing kids in a certain place...The world only wakes up when the threat is beyond the national border and countries are left to deal with their national problems...without any support most of the time...."