swine flu Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/swine-flu/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 16 Oct 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 swine flu Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/swine-flu/ 32 32 WHO must decide if Ebola outbreak in DRC constitutes an international medical emergency https://jjcornish.com/2018/10/who-must-decide-if-ebola-outbreak-in-drc-constitutes-an-international-medical-emergency/ Tue, 16 Oct 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/10/who-must-decide-if-ebola-outbreak-in-drc-constitutes-an-international-medical-emergency/ The World Health Organisation’s emergency committee is meeting in Geneva today to decide whether the Ebola outbreak in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo constitutes an international public health emergency. Trade and travel restictions could follow if the UN body decides it is. Weeks after the all clear was sounded after the  Ebola outbreak recorded […]

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The World Health Organisation’s emergency committee is meeting in Geneva today to decide whether the Ebola outbreak in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo constitutes an international public health emergency.

Trade and travel restictions could follow if the UN body decides it is.

Weeks after the all clear was sounded after the  Ebola outbreak recorded in Equateur Province in the DRC last May another outbreak occurred in the conflict torn North Kivu Province in the east of the Central African giant.  

Since the beginning of the month it’s killed 25 people and the WHO must determine whether there’s a real danger of it spreading  across the border to Uganda , Rwanda and Burundi

Public health emergencies were declared for the H1 N1 swine flu outbreak in 2009,  the polio that re-emerged with the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the Zika fever outbreak in 2016.

 

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