The World Health Organization (WHO) declared monkeypox as public health emergency of international concern.

According to the World Health Organization, the spreading monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 nations is an "exceptional" situation that has now become a worldwide emergency. 

"The risk of monkeypox is moderate globally and in all regions, except in the European region, where we classify the risk as high," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Gherbreyesus said in a statement.

According to the statement, there is also a definite possibility of future international spread, however, the risk of interfering with international transportation remains minimal for the time being.

"We have an outbreak that has spread swiftly over the world, via new modes of transmission, about which we know much too little, and that satisfies the requirements in the International Health Regulations," the WHO director-general said.

"For all of these reasons," he said, "I have determined that the global monkeypox outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern." 

The WHO had earlier proclaimed public health emergencies for concerns such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak, the Zika virus in Latin America in 2016, and the ongoing polio eradication effort. 

Meanwhile, three cases of monkeypox have been verified in India, all of which have been reported in Kerala.

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