Variole du singe : l’OMS pourrait décréter mercredi «une urgence de santé publique"
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00:00This Wednesday, August 14, the World Health Organization could declare the monkey plague epidemic
00:05as an international public health emergency.
00:09It is the highest level of alert triggered when the situation becomes critical.
00:13The virus, which spreads rapidly in Africa, is increasingly worrying.
00:17This emergency committee must advise the director of the WHO on the measures to be taken to slow the spread.
00:23Contrary to COVID-19, which we have discovered the symptoms and modes of transmission as we go,
00:28epidemiologists already have knowledge of the monkey plague.
00:32This disease, well known since the 1950s, causes fever and cutaneous eruptions.
00:38The last major epidemic in 2022 had affected thousands of people around the world.