Experts from the World Health Organization will meet for the second time on July 21 to analyze whether it is necessary to declare an international emergency due to the monkeypox outbreak, when cases are already approaching the 10,000 barrier.
The director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, recently anticipated that this second meeting of the Emergency Committee would take place next week, and today it was confirmed that it will be on the 21st, although the results of the deliberations could be announced days later.
At the end of June, a first meeting of the same committee did not consider it necessary to declare an international emergency due to monkeypox – the status it currently has, for example, the covid pandemic -, although it maintained the “moderate” risk of the outbreak.
The international emergency is usually declared when a contagious disease spreads through various regions in an uncontrolled way, and with this recommendations are adopted for governments to adopt special preventive measures to stop the spread.
Europe continues to be the region most affected by the monkeypox outbreak, since it concentrates more than 80% of the cases, with the United Kingdom in the lead, although infections are also increasing in the countries of Central and West Africa, where the The disease has been endemic for decades. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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