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Total cases now soar to near 3,000.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347318004#Events", "title": "2019 in Samoa", "revid": 1347318004, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 2019, "year_label": "2019 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "December 5", "text": "5 December – The deadly measles epidemic in Samoa has led to the United Nations' World Health Organization to deploy 128 medical teams to assist in vaccination efforts. 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Investigators deem a Wuhan laboratory leak to be \"extremely unlikely\", with a \"natural reservoir\" in bats being a more likely origin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372689859#February", "title": "2021", "revid": 1372689859, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 2021, "year_label": "2021 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "October 6", "text": "October 6 – The World Health Organization endorses the first malaria vaccine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372689859#October", "title": "2021", "revid": 1372689859, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 2021, "year_label": "2021 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "November 26", "text": "November 26 – COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization convenes an emergency meeting in Geneva amid concerns over Omicron, a highly mutated variant of COVID-19 first identified in South Africa that appears more infectious than Delta.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372689859#November", "title": "2021", "revid": 1372689859, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "March 24", "text": "24 March – The World Health Organization announces that a polio vaccination campaign will begin in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1315159988#March", "title": "2022 in Malawi", "revid": 1315159988, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "May 20", "text": "May 20 – 2022 monkeypox outbreak: The World Health Organization (WHO) holds an emergency meeting to discuss the spread of monkeypox in nearly a dozen countries, as the number of reported cases reaches 100.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371998228#May", "title": "2022", "revid": 1371998228, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "July 23", "text": "July 23 – The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the recent monkeypox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, as the number of reported cases exceeds 17,000 in 75 countries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371998228#July", "title": "2022", "revid": 1371998228, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 2023, "year_label": "2023 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "May 5", "text": "May 5 – The World Health Organization ends its declaration of COVID-19 being a global health emergency, but continues to refer to it as a pandemic.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372811827#May", "title": "2023", "revid": 1372811827, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 2023, "year_label": "2023 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "May 11", "text": "May 11 – The World Health Organization ends its declaration of mpox being a global health emergency.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372811827#May", "title": "2023", "revid": 1372811827, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 2024, "year_label": "2024 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "August 14", "text": "August 14 – The World Health Organization (WHO) declares mpox a public health emergency of international concern for the second time in two years, following the spread of the virus in African countries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371869228#August", "title": "2024", "revid": 1371869228, "section": "Events › August"}}]}