The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared on Saturday that the current multi-country monkeypox outbreak has already turned into a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). After reconvening the WHO Emergency Committee on Thursday concerning the monkeypox outbreak, WHO Direcotr-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the decision at a press briefing on Saturday to sound the highest level of alert that the global health authority can issue for the time being.
Tedros said while the committee was unable to reach a consensus, he came to the decision after considering the five elements required on deciding whether an outbreak constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.
首先,各國提供的信息顯示,猴痘病毒已迅速蔓延到許多以前從沒出現(xiàn)過病例的國家;
First, the information provided by countries shows that this virus has spread rapidly to many countries that have not seen it before;
According to WHO, endemic monkeypox disease is normally geographically limited to West and Central Africa. Multiple clusters of the monkeypox virus have been reported within the past few weeks in several European countries and North America, which are regions where the virus is not normally found. The identification of confirmed and suspected cases of monkeypox without any travel history to an endemic area in multiple countries is atypical.
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