Answer the reader asked: "How does the international concern for public health incidents" be determined?

Editor: Comrade:

Recently, the WHO announced that the multi -country monkey acne epidemic constitutes a "international concern public health incident", which is also the highest -level warning that the WHO can be released. What is the division standard of this level?

Henan reader Jiang Hui

According to the "International Sanitation Regulations", "Public Health Emergency of InterNCERN" refers to the unusual differences in public health risks of other countries through the international communication of the disease and the need to adopt coordination and consistent international actions immediately. Public health incidents. Countries have a legal obligation to respond quickly for the "emergencies of international concern". The International Health Regulations is an international health law with general binding power. It was revised in 2005 and officially implemented in 2007.

Whether an epidemic constitutes an "international concern for public health incidents" was announced by the World Health Organization. The WHO established an emergency committee composed of international experts. The committee provided technical suggestions to the Director of the WHO, including: whether an event constituted "an international concern for public health incidents", what should be taken for incidents. Measures, whether the incident has ended, etc. The announcement of "emergencies in international attention" is the highest -level public health alert issued by the WHO. In addition, the "International Health Regulations" also stipulates that during the occurrence of severe acute respiratory syndrome, smallpox, spinal ash, and new human influenza subtypes, it automatically constitutes "international concern public health incidents." Since the implementation of the "International Health Regulations" in 2007, the World Health Organization has announced 7 times that "emergencies in international concern". Except for this announcement of the "emergencies of international concern", the other 6 times were: 2009 H1N1 pig flu epidemic, the surge in the spinal ash of the spinal cord in May 2014, and August 2014 in Ebola, West Africa The epidemic deterioration, the outbreak of the Zika virus in 2016, the Ebola epidemic in the 2019 Congo (Gold), and the new crown pneumonia in January 2020. There are still three cases of "emergencies in international concern" that are still continuing and not announced. There are three cases of "emergencies concerned", which are spinal cord grayicitis, new crown pneumonia and monkey acne epidemic. (Wang Pinzhi)

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