Memo to President Trump: You are wrong to leave the World Health Organization. You should think again 

Coordinated cross-border efforts have eradicated smallpox, virtually eliminated tuberculosis and polio, and reduced Aids-related deaths by almost 70%. With another pandemic coming, we need the WHO to help fight it, writes Gordon Brown

'World Health ripped us off,' Trump said in the Oval Office as he signed up to the one-year countdown to departure. Picture: AP /Evan Vucci

New mpox cases have also been detected recently in France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Canada and the US as it spreads out of Africa. 

Also this week, Tanzania’s president confirmed an outbreak of Marburg, an Ebola-like virus, which the country’s health minister had previously denied, only after the World Health Organisation (WHO) independently reported an outbreak of nine suspected cases and eight deaths.