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Brad
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
 
2022-07-23, 15:50

Speaking of outbreaks…

WHO declares monkeypox an international emergency as child cases raise alarm [Updated] (ArsTechnica)

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Update 7/23/2022 11:00am ET: The World Health Organization on Saturday declared the multinational monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), the agency's highest level of alert.



In addition to this development, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday afternoon announced identifying the first two cases of monkeypox in children. One case was in a toddler who lives in California. The other was in an infant who is not a US resident, but was diagnosed in Washington, DC while the family was traveling. Both children are reported to be doing well. Unlike the child's case reported from the Netherlands and described below, the two child cases in the US appear to be explained by transmission from infected household members, who have links to transmission in the men-who-have-sex-with-men community.
WHO declares global health emergency over monkeypox outbreak (Reuters)

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Health experts welcomed the WHO's decision to issue the PHEIC declaration, which until now had only been applied to the coronavirus pandemic and ongoing efforts to eradicate polio.



So far this year, there have been more than 16,000 cases of monkeypox in more than 75 countries, and five deaths in Africa.



Cases of the viral disease have ballooned since the committee first met at the end of June, when there were only about 3,000 cases.
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