The Biden administration declared monkeypox a public health emergency on Aug. 4, but leading national and international health organizations haven’t made sweeping changes to the way they classify the virus and illness, despite alarming claims made by an image circulating online.
An image shared in a Facebook post on Aug. 3 suggested that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization made major changes to their available monkeypox guidance and information.
The screenshot (embedded below) purports to be from a BBC News article and features its logo. A headline reads, “What you need to know about monkeypox,” and makes the following claims:
The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about PolitiFact’s partnership with Facebook.)
The BBC confirmed the image was not a real graphic and urged people to check the veracity of stories on the BBC News website.
A search for the screenshot’s headline on the BBC News website turned up no matching results. On Aug. 2, BBC News published a story about monkeypox with the headline, “What is monkeypox and how do you catch it?”
The article cites the World Health Organization and...
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