MPOX is “not the ‘new COVID’” and European governments need to show strong political commitment to eliminate it while standing in solidarity with Africa, a top official of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. Briefing journalists in Geneva, Dr Hans Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe, insisted that the risk from mpox to the general population was “low”. He rejected comparisons between the fast-spreading viral disease which the agency determined to be an international public health emergency last week, and the COVID-19 pandemic, “regardless of whether it’s mpox clade 1, behind the ongoing outbreak in east-central Africa,…