GENEVA: The number of monkeypox infections around the world has now topped 70,000, the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday as it warned that declining new cases did not mean people should drop their guard.

The United Nations health agency said case numbers last week were rising in several countries in the Americas as it stressed that a slowdown worldwide in fresh infections could be the "most dangerous" time in the outbreak.

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