WHO official: we believe monkeypox outbreak can be stopped


  • World
  • Tuesday, 26 Jul 2022

FILE PHOTO: Health care professionals prepare monkeypox vaccines at the Test Positive Aware Network nonprofit clinic in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., July 25, 2022. REUTERS/Eric Cox

GENEVA (Reuters) -The rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak can be stopped, an official from the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.

"We do at this moment still believe that this outbreak of monkeypox can be stopped with the right strategies in the right groups but time is going by and we all need to pull together to make that happen," Rosamund Lewis, WHO Technical Lead on Monkeypox, told reporters.

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