LONDON — WHO is weighing whether to declare monkeypox an international emergency — a decision that could come as early as today. A declaration could escalate the global response as cases rapidly rise in Britain despite efforts to contain it.
Health officials this week recommended that men in Florida who have sex with other men get a meningococcal vaccine following what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called "one of the worst outbreaks of meningococcal disease among gay and bisexual men in U.S. history."
So far, there have been no cases of polio detected directly in the U.K. But instead, scientists have discovered the outbreak through an indirect route. They've found multiple versions of the virus in sewage water.