According to this expert, the WHO should not hesitate to declare a “public health emergency of international concern”.
In view of the increasing number of cases monkey poxThe World Health Organization has decided to convene its Emergency Response Committee to decide on joining the high alert level for the disease. The meeting lasted less than six hours. But the possible conclusions of the experts have not been made public.
But acc Santiago Mas ComaProfessor of Parasitology at the University of La Laguna and expert on theWHOit shouldn’t be long before monkeypox reaches the health authority’s highest alert level, viz “Public Health Emergency of International Concern”.
“It won’t take long to declare a pandemic”
“It won’t take long to declare the pandemic” he said in an interview with Telecinco. The teacher judges that the climate change will encourage the spread of the disease and urges countries to “stop and get to work”.
? Desde que se anunció la legada de la viruela del mono a España, los casos no han parado de multiplicarse, registrándose más de 1,000 casos de la enfermedad solo en nuestro paíshttps://t.co/Oq8rq1fKQF
— Informativos Telecinco (@informativost5) July 19, 2022
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