President Trumpβs decision to pull out of the international health agency could deprive the United States of crucial scientific data and lessen the countryβs influence in setting a global health agenda.
A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected.
Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nationβs standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.
President-elect Donald J. Trumpβs advisers have spent months trying to identify a disease that will help them build their case for closing the border.
In crowded Kinshasa, two strains of mpox are sweeping through a community that relies on selling sex. Hundreds of thousands of vaccines sent to the country have not been used.