The World Health Organization declared the spread of monkeypox to be a global health emergency over the weekend. The disease has spread rapidly across Africa, Europe and, most recently, in the US. The World’s host Marco Werman spoke with Dr. Ali Mokdad, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington, about the spread and why it was necessary to declare it an “emergency.”
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