Devex | July 6, 2022
“I worry that the world only has a short window within which it can contain the current monkeypox outbreaks before the virus becomes entrenched in large populations beyond MSM [men who have sex with men] communities,” said Lawrence Gostin, a professor at Georgetown University and founding O’Neill chair in global health law, who believes the IHR emergency committee advising the WHO chief should have recommended the declaration of a PHEIC.