WHO holds a meeting on monkeypox to decide on declaring an “international emergency”

Exclusive translation : The World Health Organization has announced that they will reconvene their monkeypox committee to decide whether it should be considered a “global health emergency.”

The number of cases of infection in 36 countries

The United Nations health agency now learned of 9,200 cases in 63 countries in the latest update released on Tuesday.

The second meeting of the emergency committee

This will be the WHO’s second meeting of the Emergency Committee, where experts are due to decide whether monkeypox cases constitute a public health emergency which should be an “international concern”. PHEIC (Public Health Emergency of International Concern) is the highest official warning that the World Health Organization can raise about the spread of a disease such as monkeypox.

High incidence of infection

And the committee’s recent meeting found the situation had not yet reached a bottom line – but with case numbers rising, the health agency is warning of their concerns.

The UN health agency said in a statement: “The Emergency Committee will provide its views to the Director-General of the World Health Organization on whether the event constitutes a health emergency, and if so, it will propose interim recommendations on how to prevent and better limit the spread of the disease and manage the response. Global public health.

Take the test quickly

Late last month, UKHSA Incident Manager Dr Sophia McKee said: “If you are attending large events during the summer, watch out for any symptoms of monkeypox so you can get tested quickly and help avoid transmission.”