Vietnam ramps up mpox prevention amid WHO emergency declaration


The mpox virus under the microscope. — AFP/VNA

HANOI: The Ministry of Health (MoH) on Monday (Aug 19) issued an urgent directive to provincial and city People’s Committees, Hygiene and Epidemiology Institutes, Pasteur Institutes and hospitals specialising in infectious diseases, urging them to ramp up efforts to prevent and control the spread of mpox.

The directive follows the WHO’s declaration of mpox as a public health emergency of international concern.

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