Another Lockdown August 2025. In august, the world health organization declared mpox a global health emergency amid a rapidly growing outbreak in central africa and the emergence of a new, more severe subtype of the virus. As of august 2024, the virus had infected more than 700 million people and caused more than 7 million deaths.

Last august, the who chief released standing recommendations under the ihr to monitor mpox cases. Here’s the latest on new variants, updated vaccines, and masking.