by David Bell, Childrens Health Defense:

About 500 people died from mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this year, over 80% of them under age 15. In that same period, about 40,000 people in DRC, mostly children under age 5, died from malaria.

The mpox emergency

The World Health Organization (WHO) acted as expected last week and declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).

So, a problem in a small number of African countries that has killed about the same number of people this year as die every four hours from tuberculosis has come to dominate international headlines. This is raising a lot of angst from some circles against the WHO.