Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (CDC) raised its travel alert for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and six other African countries on Thursday after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the mpox outbreak in Africa as a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).
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