China News Service, July 15. According to Agence France-Presse, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on the 14th local time that it will reconvene an emergency committee meeting on the 21st to reassess whether the current monkeypox epidemic constitutes an "international public health emergency". event".
"If an emergency is determined, WHO will make interim recommendations on how to better prevent and reduce the spread of the disease and manage the global public health response," the WHO said in a statement.
On June 24, local time, the New York City government opened a temporary clinic in Manhattan to vaccinate susceptible people against monkeypox.
The picture shows the medical staff of the clinic preparing to receive the visiting public.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liao Pan
Last month, the World Health Organization announced that the monkeypox outbreak had not yet become an "international public health emergency."
Meanwhile, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was deeply concerned about the outbreak.
According to WHO data on the 12th, 63 countries and regions have reported 9,200 confirmed cases of monkeypox.
Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus.
In the past few weeks, several European and American countries have reported multiple clusters of monkeypox virus, most of them involving men who have sex with men.
The WHO said that monkeypox cases are often found in West and Central Africa, and it is not normal for confirmed and suspected cases reported in many countries without any travel history to monkeypox-endemic areas.