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On July 23, the World Health Organization announced that the epidemic of monkey acne was "internationally concerned emergencies." It is understood that the "international concern public health incident" is the highest -level alert issued by the WHO.

The Director -General of the WHO Tan Desai said that although the risk of the current impact of monkey acne epidemic is still low, its risk of further spreading in the world is obvious. The current epidemic is rapidly spreading globally, but people know very little about the new mode of spreading the virus, which is in line with the standard of "international concern" in the International Health Regulations.

Up to now, 75 countries and regions

Report tens of thousands of monkey acne cases

On June 23, the WHO held the first meeting of the emergency committee of the monkey acne epidemic. On June 25, the WHO announced that the epidemic of the monkey acne does not constitute a "international concern public health incident." At that time, the WHO received about 3040 romance reports from 47 countries and regions.

However, in the past month, more and more countries and regions have reported to WHO to report monkey acne cases. As of now, 75 countries and regions have reported more than 16,000 cases of acne. On July 21, the WHO once again held a meeting of the emergency committee of the monkey acne epidemic, but the emergency committee failed to reach an agreement on whether the Monkey epidemic constituted the "international concern public health incident".

According to the "International Health Regulations" formulated in 2005, the emergency committee evaluates whether the epidemic constitutes the "international concern public health incident" and makes suggestions to the World Health General Director -General. It is "internationally concerned emergencies".

According to the news provided by the WHO, monkey acne is a viral human and animals and animals, which is caused by monkey acne virus. It is transmitted to the infected people or animals or contact with virus -contaminated objects to Human beings, close contact with skin injury, body fluids, respiratory tract droplets, and bedding, such as pollutants can spread between people. The typical manifestations of monkey acne are fever, rash and lymphadenopathy, and may cause a series of complications. The WHO said that monkey acne is usually a self -limited disease with symptoms lasting for 2 to 4 weeks, but there may also be severe cases and even cause death.

Source: People's Daily Client, CCTV News

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