WHO considering re-declaring a public health emergency due to the spread of the Omicron variant…Consulting with experts

“Sending 1 million vaccines to the Gaza Strip where polio virus detected”,
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) [Provided by WHO],
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, ‘ (Geneva= Yonhap News) Reporter Ahnhee = The World Health Organization (WHO) has decided to convene experts to reconsider declaring the highest level of health alert as the monkeypox, renamed as emoryx (MPOX), spreads centred on Africa.’,
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, ‘ Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the WHO, announced at a briefing held at the UN Geneva Office on the 7th local time that he will as soon as possible convene the Emergency Committee for the International Health Regulations to obtain recommendations on emoryx.’,
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, ‘ The Emergency Committee for the International Health Regulations is a group of experts that assess whether to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) for a specific disease and provide advice to the Director-General.’,
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, ‘ PHEIC is the highest level of public health emergency declaration that WHO can make. When PHEIC is declared, WHO can intensify research, fund support for disease suppression, and pursue international health measures vigorously.’,
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, ‘ Emoryx was declared a PHEIC in October 2022 and was lifted in May last year, 10 months later. The decision was based on the judgment that the risk factors could be controlled to the extent where it could be managed as a common infectious disease.’,
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, ‘ Originating as a tropical disease in Central and West Africa, emoryx spread to countries worldwide from May last year. When infected with this disease, patients often exhibit symptoms of vesicular rash, acute fever, headaches, muscle pain, etc.’,
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, ‘ Due to the characteristic that most infections are transmitted through male-to-male sexual contact, not only does the disease itself pose risks, but it also carries issues such as social stigma and discrimination against infected individuals, resulting in reduced disease response capacity.’,
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, ‘ While the outbreak in Europe and the Americas subsided last May, another sublineage of emoryx began to spread in the Democratic Republic of Congo from September last year.’,
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, ‘ This sublineage is rapidly spreading in Africa this year, with WHO reporting over 11,000 infection cases and 445 deaths. Compared to the high infection rate among adult males with homosexual tendencies last year, WHO added that there is now a high number of child patients. Emoryx is transmitted through bodily fluids, skin contact, droplets, etc.’,
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, ‘ On this day, WHO announced that in the Gaza Strip where the Israeli army and the Palestinian armed faction Hamas are engaged in conflict, poliovirus, known as polio virus in children, has been detected recently, and more than 1 million vaccines will be sent to the Gaza Strip over several weeks.’,
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, ‘ The Gaza Strip Health Department had earlier revealed that poliovirus was detected in sewage samples from the Khan Yunis area in southern Gaza in late last month. As the war intensifies and hygienic conditions deteriorate, WHO has warned of the risk of disease spread in the Gaza Strip.’,
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, ‘ WHO also made some modifications to the contents mentioned while briefing on the current status of the COVID-19 outbreak the previous day.’,
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, ‘ WHO reported that the spread of COVID-19 is showing an increasing trend over several months and announced that at least 40 athletes tested positive for COVID-19 at the Paris Olympics. However, through additional data on this day, they revised it to “At least 40 people showed positive reactions to COVID-19 or other respiratory diseases.”‘,
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