GENEVA, Sept 5, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Mpox no longer represents a global public health emergency, the World Health Organization said Friday, following a sustained decline in cases and deaths in Democratic Republic of Congo and other affected countries.

"Of course, lifting the emergency declaration does not mean the threat is over, nor that our response will stop," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference after deciding to lift the UN health agency's top emergency status, put in place more than a year ago.