{"id":6760,"date":"2024-08-14T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=6760"},"modified":"2024-08-14T14:28:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T18:28:18","slug":"who-declares-mpox-outbreak-a-global-health-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/who-declares-mpox-outbreak-a-global-health-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO declares mpox outbreak a global health emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the spread of mpox in multiple African countries a public health emergency of international concern, the second such declaration in the past two years called in response to transmission of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The latest decision came on the recommendation of a panel of experts convened to advise WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the issue. It also follows a similar declaration Tuesday by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear that a coordinated international response is essential to stop this outbreak and save lives,\u201d Tedros said in announcing the declaration of the PHEIC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the spread of mpox in multiple African countries a public health emergency of international concern, the second such declaration in the past two years called in response to transmission of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The latest decision came on the recommendation of a panel of experts convened to advise WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the issue. It also follows a similar declaration Tuesday by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear that a coordinated international response is essential to stop this outbreak and save lives,\u201d Tedros said in announcing the declaration of the PHEIC.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/who-declares-mpox-outbreak-a-global-health-emergency\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHO declares mpox outbreak a global health emergency<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[690,176,283],"class_list":["post-6760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","tag-mpox","tag-world-health-organization","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6762,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions\/6762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}