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News Wrap: WHO calls monkeypox virus a global emergency

Season 2022 Episode 207 | 2m 59s

In our news wrap Saturday, the WHO announced the monkeypox virus has now reached more than 70 countries and should be treated as a global emergency, two Americans were killed in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region while elsewhere Russia targeted Odesa, doctors say President Biden most likely contracted the BA-5 variant, and a raging wildfire near Yosemite triggered widespread evacuations.

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