By: Dr. George Hatoum
The World Health Organization has finally sounded its most serious alarm over the spread of monkeypox, declaring it a “public health emergency of international concern”, just as it did for covid-19 in 2020.
Many researchers think this decision should have been taken a month ago when the WHO first considered it. The disease is spreading rapidly around the world, with more than 16,000 cases confirmed so far this year.
But the real issue isn’t this delay. It is that we have had decades to stop this outbreak from happening …
