#WHO #Statement of the fortieth #meeting of #Polio #IHR Emergency #Committee, https://www.who.int/news/item/03-12-2024-statement-of-the-fortieth-meeting-of-the-polio-ihr-emergency-committee

The Committee unanimously agreed that #risk of #international #spread of #poliovirus remains a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (#PHEIC) and recommended the extension of Temporary #Recommendations for a further three months.

1rst #meeting of #IHR (2005) #EC regarding upsurge of #mpox 2024, #Proceedings of meeting, https://www.who.int/news/item/19-08-2024-first-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations-(2005)-emergency-committee-regarding-the-upsurge-of-mpox-2024

Committee considered event as “#extraordinary” because of (a) increase in mpox clade I disease occurrence in #DRC & emergence of new MPXV clade Ib, human-to-human transmission context in which it is occurring, its rapid spread in some settings, & available evidence suggesting that MPXV clade I is associated with a more severe clinical presentation with respect to MPXV clade II...

#WHO #DG's opening #remarks at media #briefing following the #IHR Emergency Committee #meeting on upsurge of #mpox 2024 – 14 August 2024, https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-following-the-ihr-emergency-committee-meeting-on-the-upsurge-of-mpox-2024---14-august-2024

Today, the Emergency Committee met and advised me that in its view, the situation constitutes a public health emergency of international concern {#PHEIC}. I have accepted that advice.

Avian #Influenza A (#H5N2) - #Mexico, #WHO: https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2024-DON520

On 23 May 2024, the Mexico #IHR NFP reported to PAHO/WHO a confirmed case of #human #infection with avian influenza A(H5N2) virus detected in a 59-year-old resident of the State of Mexico who was hospitalized in Mexico City and had no history of exposure to poultry or other animals.

#WHA #agreement reached on wide-ranging, decisive #package of #amendments to improve the #IHR, via Reliefweb https://reliefweb.int/report/world/world-health-assembly-agreement-reached-wide-ranging-decisive-package-amendments-improve-international-health-regulations

...a definition of a #pandemic #emergency to trigger more effective international collaboration in response to events that are at #risk of becoming, or have become, a pandemic. Definition represents a higher level of #alarm that builds on existing mechanisms of the IHR, including the determination of public health emergency of international concern.

Die intransparenten Verhandlungen zum #IHR / #Pandemievertrag in Genf sind besorgniserregend.
Beispielsweise würden deutsche Kontrollinstanzen wie die #STIKO faktisch ausgehebelt, denn lt. WHO-Impfstoffregime (Annex 6) bestimmt dann die #WHO, welche Impfstoffe oder prophylaktischen Medikamente vorsorglich für den Pandemiefall zugelassen werden.
Manche erinnern sich vielleicht noch an den WHO-Tamiflu-Skandal ... damals schrieb #Transparency: „Mannigfaltige Verflechtungen zwischen den WHO-Pandemie-Experten und den Medikamenten- und Impfstoffherstellern“ seien die Ursache für die unerklärbare und nahezu deckungsgleiche Nachlässigkeit zahlreicher europaweiter Zulassungs- und Kontrollbehörden, die sich mit „unvollständigen Studiendaten“ seitens der Konzerne begnügt hätten. "

Leider hat eine konsequente Aufarbeitung des Schweinegrippe-Skandals bei der WHO nie stattgefunden, und bei Corona stehen wir auch noch ganz am Anfang ...

https://www.transparency.org/en/press/20120202-tamiflu

Habt #Ihr auch das #gefuehl dass der #DritteWeltkrieg kurz vor dem #Ausbruch steht?