Commentary In a move that is sure to trigger widespread discussion concerning the independence, objectivity, and wisdom of granting authority to the World Health Organization to manage global infectious diseases responses, the monkeypox outbreak has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the WHO. The declaration was made unilaterally, in direct…
‘Should Not Expect’ Monkeypox to Stay Within LGBT Population, Senior WHO Officials Warns
A senior official from the World Health Organization (WHO) has forewarned that monkeypox virus infections are likely to spread beyond the LBGT community in a matter of time. The warning by Dr. Catherine Smallwood, a senior emergency officer at the WHO, comes after the United Nations health agency declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international…
CDC Director: Monkeypox Strikes Children on Opposite Coasts of US
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that two U.S. children have contracted the monkeypox virus, saying that the children can be traced back to people from the “gay men’s community.” “Both of those children are traced back to individuals who come from the men-who-have-sex-with-men community, the gay men’s community,”…
WHO Admits Everyone Who Gets Monkeypox Vaccine Part of ‘Clinical Trial’ to Collect Data
A top World Health Organization (WHO) official conceded that everyone who gets a monkeypox vaccine is essentially part of a “clinical trial” to collect information on whether the shot is effective. The comments came as the agency’s Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, overruled a WHO advisory panel and declared monkeypox a global health emergency, which is the…
WHO Again Considers Declaring Monkeypox a Global Emergency
LONDON—As the World Health Organization’s emergency committee convened Thursday to consider for the second time within weeks whether to declare monkeypox a global crisis, some scientists said the striking differences between the outbreaks in Africa and in developed countries will complicate any coordinated response. African officials say they are already treating the continent’s epidemic as…
WHO Reports 2 New Monkeypox Deaths, Cases in New Areas
GENEVA—The World Health Organization reported two new deaths from monkeypox since its previous disease update on June 27, bringing the total to three since the start of the year, and said the disease had spread to new areas. Cases have shot up 77 percent since the last report to 6,027, the WHO said, with the…
WHO Determines Monkeypox Not an International Public Health Emergency ‘At Present’
The World Health Organization (WHO) has determined that the outbreak of monkeypox across multiple countries does not constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) “at present,” according to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and the International Health Response (IHR) Emergency Committee. In the meeting statement, released on June 25, the WHO determined that monkeypox…
More Than 900 Cases of Hepatitis of Unknown Origin Reported in Children, WHO Says
Health officials across 33 countries have received reports of 920 probable cases of severe acute hepatitis of unknown origin in young children, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In a press release on Friday, the health agency said the latest update on the outbreak is an increase of 270 cases since it published data…
China-Appeasing WHO Chief, Lancet Commission Chairman Come out in Support of Lab Leak Theory | Truth Over News
Jeffrey Sachs, the leader of the Lancet Commission on COVID-19, now admits that the COVID-19 pandemic started in a lab. Even more startlingly, he now also admits that the virus was made with U.S. biotechnology. Sachs made his comments last week at a conference in Spain where he had been invited by former Spanish Prime…
Head of WHO Privately Believes Lab Leak Theory; Authors Break Down CCP’s Biowarfare Strategies
The World Health Organization (WHO) is reviving the call to investigate Wuhan’s virus lab. The mystery of the COVID-19 origin is still unsolved more than two years later. Without the Chinese Communist Party cooperating, how can the international community find out the truth? The head of the WHO secretly believes the lab leak theory to be…
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