Posted on 07/16/2022 6:01:31 PM PDT by Libloather
The World Health Organisation says they will reconvene their monkeypox committee to decide on if it should be considered a 'global health emergency'.
The UN health agency are now aware of 9,200 cases in 63 countries in the last update issued on Tuesday, with the UK recording 1,735 cases between May 6 and July 11 this year.
UK Health Security Agency figures show that the majority were Londoners, with 1,229 reported in the capital.
This WHO meeting will be the second for the emergency committee, with experts set to decide on if monkeypox cases constitutes a public health emergency which should be of 'international concern'.
A PHEIC (Public Health Emergency of International Concern) is the highest formal declaration alarm the WHO can raise for the spread of a disease like monkeypox.
The last committee meeting found that the situation had not yet met the threshold - but with case numbers rising, the health agency warns of their concerns.
The UN health agency said in a statement: 'The emergency committee will provide its views to the WHO director general on whether the event constitutes a PHEIC.
'If so, it will propose temporary recommendations on how to better prevent and reduce the spread of the disease and manage the global public health response.'
**SNIP**
'We expect cases to continue to rise further in the coming days and weeks. If you are attending large events over the summer or having sex with new partners, be alert to any monkeypox symptoms so you can get tested rapidly and help avoid passing the infection on.
'Currently the majority of cases have been in men who are gay, bisexual or have sex with men. However, anyone who has had close contact with an individual with symptoms is also at increased risk.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I must admit, monkey pox is not one of the top 5 things I’m concerned about. Or even the top 100, for that matter.
And yet somehow, I am not expecting them to do a ‘lockdown’ on the ‘gay baths’ despite them being ‘ground zero’ for infection.
“… men who are gay or have sex with men”
News from the Department of Redundancy Department?
Isn’t that special, just in time for the midterms!
In high school, we were warned about toilet seats.
Will the WHO members be handing out condoms to one another for the party afterwards?
Isn’t that a fag thing?
Soaring?
It’s more like a dung beetle than an eagle..
Global Health Emergency? What for? It only affects those who are light in the loafers, rump rangers, pillow biters, limp wristers, poofters, sodomites, mare pete, etc.
Seriously? That’s the best disease the WHO can come up with for the next medical panic? Something with all of 9200 cases in the whole world, and those overwhelmingly within the male homosexual community?
“Cases beginning to sour...”
Uh, how about the bit that they consciously left out?
Remember when AIDS was going to be public problem?
Remember, also, that we’re talking modern journalism.
That and science are enemies.
Arch enemies.
I will do my part and stay at least 6 feet away from queers and monkeys.
“... it will propose temporary recommendations on how to better prevent and reduce the spread of the disease ...”
Let’s see now...How to stop the spread? OK, I will suggest stop fudge packing as soon as possible.
Instead of condoms they will be handing out billions of our tax dollars to figure out a way to continue deviant lifestyle without monkeypox.
Remember when AIDS was going to be public problem?
Everyone Has AIDS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yC7HwPh6Es
I think an announcement that it’s not just gays getting it anymore is coming soon.
Yes I remember when AIDS was originally named GRIDS, (Gay Related Immune Deficiency Syndrome) until the gays objected, and the name was changed to the more politically correct AIDS.
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