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🧵 2. Three key requirements for good practice: accurate information, no financial influence in decision-making, and transparent coordination of responses.

🧵 3. WHO declares Monkeypox a global emergency after an outbreak in Central Africa, with 537 deaths among 15,600 suspected cases this year.

🧵 4. Implications of 500 unconfirmed Monkeypox deaths in DRC, which equal just 1.5% of malaria deaths, discussed following WHO's emergency declaration.

🧵 5. Monkeypox, endemic to central and west Africa, spreads through close contact and has been around for thousands of years, mainly unnoticed by the world.