The End of the Global Monkeypox Epidemic

And the beginning of an unprecedented outbreak in Africa.

Gil Pires
Microbial Instincts
3 min readJan 15, 2024

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Photo by David Clode on Unsplash.

In May of last year, the World Health Organization announced that the multi-country monkeypox outbreak, which began in 2022, was no longer a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Meanwhile, an unprecedented outbreak had broken out in the Congo.

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