The World Health Organization has declared the global spread of monkeypox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, even though a special advisory committee has declined, again, to recommend the action.
The World Health Organisation today declared the global spread of monkeypox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern , even though a special advisory committee has declined, again, to recommend the action. This is the first time since the PHEIC system was created in 2005 that the agency has made such a declaration without the panel’s endorsement.
“I am glad that the WHO director made the decision to declare MPXV a PHEIC despite the inability of the advisory committee to reach a consensus,“ Boghuma Titanji, a virologist at Emory University who works at a sexual health clinic, wrote toInsider."It is the right thing to do at this time and was the right thing to do a month ago - many of us were frustrated by the delay.
The Thursday meeting of the expert panel was followed by tense exchanges via email and text messages between those who had taken part,was that the disease had caused few deaths so far and was not spreading in the general population, along with fears that a PHEIC could lead to further stigmatization of men who have sex with men , the group primarily affected.
Those in favor of declaring a PHEIC also cited the rising number of monkeypox cases, more than 15,000 so far, and countries affected, and that many cases are likely still being missed. They also pointed out the risk of the virus permanently establishing itself in the global human population. Indeed, just yesterday the CDC noted that two children in the U.S had the illness.
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