In this Black Headline World News Report, news producer, Julia Dudley Najieb, reviews the world, national and state governments declaring a public health emergency concerning the monkepox virus spread.

On July 23, the World Health Organization (WHO) director-general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, declared the escalating global monkeypox outbreak a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern" (PHEIC). Now, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Xavier Becerra announced today that he will declare the ongoing spread of monkeypox virus in the United States a Public Health Emergency (PHE).

Finally, Dudley Najieb revisits an Ethnic Media Services briefing from this summer that featured two medical experts and a virologist who explain the monkeypox virus in detail, along with dispelling myths that this disease is only relative to LGBTQ communities: Dr. William Schaffner, Dr. Ben Neuman and Dr. Gregg Gonsalves.