China News Service, July 15th According to Agence France-Presse, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on the 14th local time that it will reconvene an emergency committee meeting on the 21st to reassess the current situation. Whether the monkeypox outbreak constitutes an “international public health emergency”.
WHO said in a statement, “If an emergency is determined, WHO will make recommendations on how to better prevent and reduce the spread of the disease and manage the global public health response. Temporary suggestion.”
On June 24th, local time, the New York City government opened a temporary clinic in Manhattan, for the susceptible The population is vaccinated against monkeypox. The picture shows the medical staff of the clinic preparing to receive the visiting public. Photo by China News Agency reporter Liao Pan
Last month, the WHO announced that the monkeypox outbreak has not yet become an “international public health emergency”. Meanwhile, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was deeply concerned about the outbreak.
According to WHO data on the 12th, 63 countries and regions have reported 9,200 confirmed cases of monkeypox.
Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease caused by infection with monkeypox virus. In the past few weeks, several European and American countries have reported multiple clusters of monkeypox virus, most of them involving men who have sex with men. The WHO said that monkeypox cases often occur in West and Central Africa, and it is not normal for confirmed and suspected cases to be reported in many countries without any travel history to monkeypox-endemic areas.