Agencies – Gaza post
WHO declares monkeypox “global emergency”
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced monkeypox spreads in over 50 countries an “emergency of international concern.” At least 16,500 cases of monkey and chickenpox were reported globally.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the decision to make the announcement despite a lack of consensus among professionals working on the UN Health Agency’s emergency group. This was the first time the head of the United Nations health agency had taken such a decision.
“We have an outbreak that has spread rapidly around the world through new transmission patterns that we understand very little and meet the standards of international health regulations,” Tedros clarified on Saturday.
“I know this has not been an easy or straightforward process and there are diverging views among the members of the Committee.”
Tedros said more than 16 thousand cases were reported from 75 states and territories and five deaths.
The global emergency is the World Health Organization’s highest level of protection, but classification does not need to mean that the illness is transmissible or particularly deadly.
WHO emergency chief Dr. Michael Ryan said the Director-General had made the action to put monkeypox in this category to ensure that the current fascist global community took it seriously.
WHO recently called for “quick” action to prevent the outbreak of monkeypox in Europe.
WHO Regional Director for Europe Dr. Hans Henri Kluge stated in July 90 that infections in Europe accounted for about 31 percent of the global total of cases, with 1 country in the European distract identifying cases.
“Today, I intensify my call to Governments and civil society to expand efforts… “To prevent monkeys from proving themselves across a growing geographic area,” Kluge reported in a statement at the time.
