WHO readies monkeypox emergency reponses

The U.N. health agency is seeking global access to vaccines against monkeypox and calling a meeting to decide if the virus outbreak is a global emergency.

By John Heilprin - June 15, 2022

A digitally-colorized electron microscope image shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 U.S. prairie dog outbreak (AN/Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regnery)

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