Multi-country outbreak of mpox (monkeypox) – External Situation Report 12, published 14 December 2022

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Highlights

• Since the last situation report published on 1 December, 1517 new cases (1.9% increase in total cases) and 10 new deaths have been reported.

• Mpox has been endorsed as a new name for monkeypox disease. The new name has been included as a synonym in ICD-10 on 2 December 2022 and will be included in ICD-11 from January 2023.

• The call for expressions of interest for countries to receive a donation of tecovirimat for Emergency Use under the MEURI framework V1.0 closed on 6 December 2022. A total of 20 countries from four regions have submitted expressions of interest for the program.

• Multi-disciplinary country support missions to Nigeria and the Central Africa Republic have been conducted by WHO to lend support to optimizing surveillance and other areas of monkeypox response.

Source: World Health Organization

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