This Thursday, August 4th, The United States government officially declared a national health emergency Because of an outbreak of monkeypox or monkeypox.
United States declares national emergency over monkeypox
US government on Thursday Decided to officially declare a national health emergency for monkeypox,
And the thing is that due to the spread of this disease, at least seven thousand cases of monkeypox have already been reported in the neighboring country.For which the United States officials decided to declare a national emergency.
Regarding this new sanitary measure, the head of the US Secretary of Health, Javier Becerra, Told that he hopes to bring an answer to the disease “to the next level”,
,In light of evolving circumstances on the ground, I am declaring a public health emergency for monkeypox, We are ready to take our response to this virus to the next level. We urge all Americans to take monkeypox seriously.”, Javier Becerra wrote on Twitter,
WHO also declared a global health emergency
It is worth noting that recently on 23 July the World Health Organization (WHO) Also decided to declare a global health emergency for monkeypox,
It was through a statement that he shared on his official social network, which The organization explained the reasons why this decision was taken, For example, he noted that this possibility had been discussed since June, but determined it was no longer necessary.
“In short, we have an outbreak that has spread rapidly around the world, through new modes of transmission, about which we know very little, and which meets the criteria of international health regulations. For all these reasons, I have decided that the global outbreak of monkeypox represents a public health emergency of international concern.,WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared at the time.