at a press conference, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has determined that the risk is currently higher in Europe than in the rest of the world..
The WHO classification of “Public Health Emergencies of International Concern” aims to sound the alarm about the need for a coordinated international response to a disease or outbreak, and to alert the need for funding and global efforts to share vaccines and treatments.
“We have an outbreak that is rapidly spreading all over the world that we know very little about.”Director-General of the World Health Organization.
On Thursday, members of the expert panel were unable to reach consensus to pass this recommendation. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus confirmed on Saturday that his vote was crucial to a concrete solution.
Nine members of the Committee of Experts voted against the appointment and six others voted in favour. The Director-General of the World Health Organization ended up choosing to declare the highest alert level.
Ghebreyesus’ decision against the majority opinion was due to concerns about the growing number of cases in countries with no previous history of infection and a lack of vaccines and treatments.
This means this is an outbreak that “can be stopped with the right strategies in the right categories,” the WHO official stressed, warning that “stigma and discrimination can be just as dangerous as any virus.”
This is the seventh time that the World Health Organization has declared an international emergency (the mechanism started in 2005), having done so for Influenza A in 2009in order to Ebola in 2014 and 2018to me Polio 2014in order to Zika virus in 2017 And to get Corona virus that causes Covid-19 disease in 2020The latter is still valid.
Experts say the ad serves to alert countries
According to the latest data from the Directorate General of Health (DGS), Portugal has a total of 588 confirmed cases of monkeypox virus.
The most common symptoms of the disease are Fever, severe headache, muscle aches, back pain, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes with progressive rash affecting the skin and mucous membranes.
Speaking to Antena 1, the president of the National Association of Public Health Physicians, Gustavo Tato Borges, said: The World Health Organization specifically intends to raise serious awareness of this disease which has not received due attention.
The expert says this is also a warning to Portugal not to neglect the disease. Although it is less transmissible than covid-19, it may eventually lead to an increased burden on the NHS.
Global combat measures have been mainly communicative and the WHO, with this decision, intends to warn that the measures implemented so far are not sufficient.
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