{"id":194617,"date":"2024-08-16T01:24:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T06:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/who-declares-mpox-outbreak-a-global-health-emergency"},"modified":"2024-08-16T01:24:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T06:24:27","slug":"who-declares-mpox-outbreak-a-global-health-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/who-declares-mpox-outbreak-a-global-health-emergency","title":{"rendered":"WHO declares mpox outbreak a global health emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/who-declares-mpox-outbreak-a-global-health-emergency.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/14-08-2024-who-director-general-declares-mpox-outbreak-a-public-health-emergency-of-international-concern\" target=\"_blank\">global health emergency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WHO convened its emergency committee amid concerns that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/07\/health\/mpox-clade-i-drc\/index.html\">deadlier strain of the virus<\/a>, clade Ib, had reached four previously unaffected<strong> <\/strong>countries in Africa. This strain had previously been contained to the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>The independent experts met virtually Wednesday to advise WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the severity of the outbreak. After that consultation, he announced that he had declared a public health emergency of international concern \u2014 the highest level of alarm under international health law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency. WHO convened its emergency committee amid concerns that a deadlier strain of the virus, clade Ib, had reached four previously unaffected countries in Africa. This strain had previously been contained to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The independent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}