June 29, 2022
Monkeypox Emergency Committee to Be Reconvened by WHO Due to “Evolving Situation”
The WHO will reconvene an emergency committee on monkeypox due to the “evolving situation.”
Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday (June 29)—this after the organization declared Saturday (June 25) that the virus wasn’t an international public health emergency “at present.”
The committee “advised that I should reconvene them quickly based on the evolving situation, which I will do.”
Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press availability, adding that the virus is potentially poised to “move into high-risk groups including children, the immunocompromised, and pregnant women.”
“We are starting to see this with several children already infected,” he said.
Adhanom Ghebreyesus and the committee on Saturday acknowledged that the situation should be “closely monitored,” and the decision not to declare an emergency be “reviewed after a few weeks,” noting the global outbreak’s “emergency nature” and the “intense response efforts” required to control it.
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