The Democratic Republic of Congo announced on Thursday the end of a monkeypox outbreak that lasted two years and is believed to have caused more than 2,200 deaths in the country. Congo's Minister of Health, Roger Kamba, said in statements to journalists in the capital Kinshasa that the government had concluded that the outbreak was over and no longer constituted a national emergency situation. It is worth noting that the Democratic Republic of Congo, a vast country in Central Africa, was the epicenter of an infectious viral disease outbreak that spread to neighboring countries in 2024, prompting the World Health Organization to declare a global health emergency as the disease crossed borders. The World Health Organization had previously ended the state of emergency declaration.