The World Health Organization will hold an emergency meeting later today on smallpox of monkeysaccording to sources close to the United Nations.
The committee to meet is the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Pandemic Infectious Risks and Outbreaks (STAG-IH), which advises the WHO on contamination risks that could pose a threat to world health.
More than 100 cases of viral infectionwhich spreads through close contact and is usually mild, have recently been reported outside of African countries where it is endemic.
STAG-IH is not the committee within the WHO that would propose declaring monkey pox an international public health emergency, the WHO’s highest form of alarm currently applicable to the Covid pandemic. 19.
It is a team of experts made up of scientists from around the world and chaired by David Hayman, Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Earlier today, A WHO spokesman told a news conference in Geneva that the agency was working to exchange information and organize technical meetings on monkey pox outbreaks..
More than 100 cases of smallpox in monkeys viral infectionreported in Europe this week.
Many suspected cases of monkey pox have been reported in the Netherlands today, the ANP news agency reported, citing the government’s health service.
Cases have been reported in Britain, Spain, France, Australia and Canada, among others.
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