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WHO accused of ignoring its own post-SARS guidelines in early days of coronavirus
Fox News ^ | May 06 2020 | Brooke Singman

Posted on 05/06/2020 7:58:47 AM PDT by knighthawk

The World Health Organization is being accused of ignoring its own guidelines put in place after the SARS outbreak in the early 2000s, which call for the organization to investigate reports of potential new coronavirus cases from the start to prevent any chance of a pandemic.

Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who have been vocal critics of the WHO's handling for weeks, say that the Chinese Communist Party also ignored rules requiring governments to report any information of a new SARS-like virus to the WHO within 24 hours.

In 2005 following the SARS outbreak, the WHO had updated the International Health Regulations (IHR), which were first adopted by the Health Assembly in 1969, acknowledging that the organization has “a central and historic responsibility” to manage “the control of the international spread of disease.”

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KEYWORDS: coronavirus; sars; who

1 posted on 05/06/2020 7:58:47 AM PDT by knighthawk
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2 posted on 05/06/2020 8:13:56 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: knighthawk; All

SUPEREVIL collective of willing participants in eugenics. NUKE it from orbit. It’s the only way. Or, take out their slick sickos with drones...much like Mohammed’s minions...to minimize collateral damage to innocents. Us innocents? THEY DON’T CARE.

Have good vision. 2020


3 posted on 05/06/2020 8:19:02 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Our country and the world had ten years to prepare for this: SARS II. Where did all of that money and resources go to? It’s not hard to imagine.


4 posted on 05/06/2020 9:38:21 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: knighthawk
Somewhere in some obscure North Korean landfill lies a heart surgeon with no hands...

...and no head.
5 posted on 05/06/2020 11:28:24 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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