Sentences with phrase «public health emergency of international concern»
The WHO's Emergency Committee, which declared Zika an international public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) in February, said in a statement that «the Zika virus and associated consequences remain a significant enduring public health challenge requiring intense action but no longer represent a PHEIC.»
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WHO also has convened a committee to determine whether the Ebola outbreak constitutes a so - called Public Health Emergency of International Concern, a designation that, among other things, would allow WHO to issue travel recommendations to avoid spread of the disease.
The World Bank has granted Mexico an emergency facility of # 140 million to fight the outbreak, while the World Health Organisation has denoted the flu strain as a «public health emergency of international concern».
The Zika virus has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization, a rare designation indicating that a coordinated global response is needed.
The WHO has formally declared the outbreak to be a «public health emergency of international concern,» director - general Margaret Chan said after a two - day meeting with experts in Geneva.
The outspoken head of the Mahidol group, Nicholas White, has urged the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, a designation reserved for the most serious outbreaks that pose a global threat.
Chan declares the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern 24 April
Meanwhile, New York City is looking into possible swine flu cases, and the WHO has decided not to raise its pandemic threat level, although it did call the situation a «public health emergency of international concern.»
As evidence grew for a causal link between Zika infection and microcephaly and other serious congenital anomalies (1), the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Latin American Zika epidemic a public health emergency of international concern in February 2016 (2).
On February 1, 2016, a World Health Organization (WHO) emergency committee declared clusters of birth defects suspected of being linked to an epidemic of Zika virus in the Americas as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
In February 2016, the Zika virus was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be a public health emergency of international concern.
After declaring the disease a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in February 2016, the World Health Organization removed this status in November 2016.
Despite a recent dramatic rise in cases, a World Health Organization panel stopped short of declaring the deadly new virus Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) a public health emergency of international concern.
Liu also criticized the fact that WHO didn't declare the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) until 8 August.
In August 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), and the world scrambled to respond.
In 2015, following a Zika virus outbreak and related health issues — including an observed increase in neurological disorders and neonatal malformations in Brazil — World Health Organization officials declared the situation a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
Their first advice, to be released on Thursday, will be whether the WHO should declare MERS a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
«It's extremely heartening to see so many leading international organizations united in this unprecedented commitment to open science, reinforcing the decision by the WHO to declare Zika a Public Health Emergency of International Concern,» Farrar says.
«It was a very difficult decision to discern between what is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern and what should be precautionary measures because of a possible relation between Zika and these clusters,» explained the chair of the committee, epidemiologist David Heymann of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Increasingly strong links between the spread of Zika virus and microcephaly in newborns led the World Health Organization (WHO) today to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
The recent spate of birth defects and neurological disorders linked to Zika virus infection constitutes a «public health emergency of international concern,» the World Health Organization declared February 1.
Although Zika causes no harm in most people it infects, its possible role in clusters of microcephaly in babies and Guillain - Barré syndrome in adults led the World Health Organization on 1 February to declare that it is a «public health emergency of international concern.»
After convening by telephone for 4 hours this afternoon, the panel unanimously decided that the conditions for a public health emergency of international concern had not been met — so far.
Still, it took WHO until 8 August to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
He notes that the International Health Regulations define a public health emergency of international concern as» an extraordinary event» which «constitute [s] a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease» and «potentially require [s] a coordinated international response.»
A special panel established by the World Health Organization (WHO) decided today that the novel coronavirus that has been infecting people in the Middle East is «very concerning,» but does not yet constitute a «public health emergency of international concern.»
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak in 2014 - 15 a public health emergency of international concern and it is the largest outbreak to date.
Increasing outbreaks over the last year and a half and concern over neurological complications led to the 1 February announcement by the World Health Organization of a public health emergency of international concern, Dye said.
Citing «extraordinary» circumstances, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the international spread of wild poliovirus a public health emergency of international concern, saying the recent export of polio from three nations to adjoining areas could threaten global efforts to eradicate the disease.
Under the new plan, governments would have to report any «public health emergency of international concern» even if the agent isn't known.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is convening an emergency committee to determine whether the novel coronavirus that emerged in the Middle East last year constitutes a «public health emergency of international concern.»
The committee will ascertain whether the outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak in 2014 - 15 a public health emergency of international concerns and it is the largest outbreak to date.
The U.N. agency declared in August 2014 that the world's worst Ebola outbreak — which began in December 2013 — represented a «public health emergency of international concern'that forced all health officials to shore up defences.
The agency's director general, Dr. Margaret Chan, said the panel of outside experts that advises her on Ebola — the so - called Emergency Committee — has recommended that the outbreak no longer constitute a public health emergency of international concern.
''... Emergency Committee meeting to ascertain whether the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa constitutes a «public health emergency of international concern»... This is the first time the WHO Emergency Committee is being convened to deliberate on the Ebola Virus.»
Updated, 1:58 p.m. A committee of the World Health Organization today concluded that the explosive spread of the mosquito - borne Zika virus constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
Based on this advice, the Director - General has determined that the current events constitute a public health emergency of international concern, under the Regulations.
That's why it wasn't surprising Saturday when the World Health Organization concluded that the outbreaks of swine flu focused in central Mexico as well as a school in New York City and several other places around the United States officially constituted «a public health emergency of international concern.»
The Committee nevertheless agreed that the current situation constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.
Statement by WHO Director - General, Dr Margaret Chan; Public Health Emergency of International Concern — Swine influenza
How worried we should be about the worst Ebola epidemic in history getting even further out of control will be a question considered by the WHO as it meets to decide whether to officially declare it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.