The vaccine for common smallpox is estimated to be 85 percent effective against monkeypox.
GENEVA — The World Health Organization (WHO) will convene an emergency committee meeting on June 23 to discuss the monkeypox outbreak. WHO experts will decide whether the monkeypox outbreak will receive an international emergency status with the label Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Although the status of PHEIC was discussed by the emergency committee,…
