Timeline of the 2022–2023 monkeypox PHEIC
# Timeline of the 2022–2023 monkeypox PHEIC

The World Health Organization (WHO) held an emergency committee meeting on 23 June 2022 regarding the outbreak, which at that point had more than 2,100 cases in over 42 countries. It did not then reach the criteria for a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) alert. At the second IHR meeting for the 2022 monkeypox outbreak, on 21 July 2022, members of the emergency committee were divided about issuing a PHEIC, with six in favor and nine against. On 23 July 2022, however, the WHO director-general declared the outbreak a PHEIC. On the date of the declaration, there were 17,186 cases reported globally, affecting 75 countries in all six WHO regions, with 5 deaths reported outside Africa and 72 deaths in African countries. Previously monkeypox had been endemic in regions of tropical Africa with only scattered outbreaks elsewhere.

