A meeting of the monkeypox emergency committee at the World Health Organization Thursday

The World Health Organization announced that its emergency committee for monkeypox will hold a meeting next Thursday to determine the measures to be taken in the face of the current outbreak of the disease.

At the meeting scheduled for next week, the committee will determine how dangerous the increase in monkeypox infections is, and whether it will be classified as an "international health emergency", which is the highest alert level for the organization.

The meeting will be the second for the committee, after it ruled out, in its first meeting on June 23, raising the alert level.

But since then, the number of confirmed cases of monkeypox has increased significantly and crossed the threshold of ten thousand in more than sixty countries, in an outbreak of which Europe is most affected.

The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has previously expressed his concern over the outbreak of the disease outside its endemic countries, and urged WHO member states to take appropriate measures to limit the outbreak.

And on Tuesday, Tedros said at a press conference in Geneva, "I stress once again the need to work to stop the spread and recommend governments to put in place a tracking mechanism for contacts to monitor and combat the virus and help people who are placed in isolation."

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