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WHO Declares Monkeypox a Global Health Emergency

by Will Jones
23 July 2022 6:00 PM

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the monkeypox outbreak to be a global health emergency – the highest alarm it can sound – following its “extraordinary” spread to more than 70 countries. MailOnline has more.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the decision to issue the declaration despite a lack of consensus among experts serving on the U.N. health agency’s emergency committee. 

It was the first time the chief of the U.N. health agency has taken such an action.

“We have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly through new modes of transmission about which we understand too little and which meets the criteria in the international health regulations,'”Tedros said.

“I know this has not been an easy or straightforward process and that there are divergent views among the members of the committee,” he added.

A global emergency is WHO’s highest level of alert, but the designation does not necessarily mean a disease is particularly transmissible or lethal. 

WHO’s emergencies chief, Dr. Michael Ryan, said the Director-General made the decision to put monkeypox in that category to ensure the global community takes the current outbreaks seriously. 

The UN health agency’s declaration could spur further investment in treating the once-rare disease – and also worsen the scramble for scarce vaccines.

Although monkeypox has been established in parts of central and west Africa for decades, it was not known to spark large outbreaks beyond the continent or to spread widely among people until May, when authorities detected dozens of epidemics in Europe, North America and elsewhere.

Declaring a global emergency means the monkeypox outbreak is an “extraordinary event” that could spill over into more countries and requires a coordinated global response.

The WHO previously declared emergencies for public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak, the Zika virus in Latin America in 2016 and the ongoing effort to eradicate polio.

The emergency declaration mostly serves as a plea to draw more global resources and attention to an outbreak.

Monkeypox has affected over 15,800 people in 72 countries, according to a tally by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published on July 20th.

It’s unclear why the WHO is trying to spread alarm about monkeypox, other than to try to manufacture a role for itself. The number of cases is tiny from a global perspective and, though transmitted via close contact rather that sexual contact as such, is nonetheless primarily functioning as a sexually transmitted infection affecting mainly men who have sex with men. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine this week found that 95% of transmission was suspected to have occurred through sexual activity and 98% of those infected were gay or bisexual men; 41% were HIV positive. Of the 528 cases in the study, none died. While the affected demographic group should be alerted to the new risk, there seems little need to do anything beyond this limited action or to spread alarm in the wider population. That the WHO has chosen to do so raises serious questions about whether it can be trusted to exercise its powers judiciously and whether it would really be wise for it to be given more.

Worth reading in full.

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JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
2 years ago

“The emergency declaration mostly serves as a prelude to the best and easiest grift ever – forcing people to be vaxxed for something that is not dangerous to them, with a vaxx that is potentially dangerous to them and will lead to even more lovely jubbly viral outbreak grifts, and, best of all, making the people pay for this themselves.” Fixed it 😉

If over 40% of infected have HIV, this suggests a suppressed immune system is also a factor underlying the spread. The real question I think most of us here would like answered is how many of the infected have received one or more covid vaxxes? The rapid rise and spread of a virus that has been known to exist in humans for decades is just too coincidental not to at least entertain the idea. Until that question has been answered, this is just one more reason for these criminals to stop pushing the covid vaxxes.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

Monkeypox? Don’t worry, they’ll offer a monkey gunk “cure”…

P.S. any news on how many Amish have got monkeypox?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

Brilliant.

One hell of a take down in so few words.

Nailed it.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

MONEYPOX

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

The elephant in the room….

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JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
2 years ago
Reply to  True Spirit of America Party

Please don’t give them any ideas! Bat flu, monkeypox, now rampant pachydermatis?

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Gefion
Gefion
2 years ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

Agree – the poor things need to be left alone. Animals are being blamed more and more for things that humans bring on themselves.

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Gefion
Gefion
2 years ago
Reply to  True Spirit of America Party

Please don’t bring elephants into this topic. There must be an awful lot of them in rooms at the moment but they deserve better…

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

Billions of people worldwide given an experimental jab that apparently tricks the immune system into standing down faster than NORAD on 9/11, combined with two years worth of immunity debt, and we wonder why so many previously rare or nearly vanquished diseases are suddenly exploding or making a comeback.

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JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
2 years ago
Reply to  True Spirit of America Party

Although the fact that this stuff tricks the immune system is highly worrisome, I find the fact that the vaxx seems capable of melting people’s brains and tricking billions of people into believing it is “safe and effective” to be most disturbing.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

Indeed, that is the scariest part of all.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  True Spirit of America Party

I wonder now if lockdowns and “vaccines”, rather than being about a virus or even big pharma profit were actually more about engineering a global health emergency. And then what? Controlled demolition of the economy? One world government? Depopulation? So many possibilities for tyrants and psychopaths.

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Gefion
Gefion
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

You sound just like a conspiracy theorist… You know how much they are loved…

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Morons on the rampage?

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Rowan
Rowan
2 years ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

Those that agreed to be injected with these dangerous experimental concoctions clearly didn’t have much brain to start with.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Nonetheless, I consider them victims. This is perhaps the most powerful propaganda campaign the world has ever seen, and I still wonder if it is in part because the globalists started to panic in 2016.

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Epi
Epi
2 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Maybe but most were frightened, bullied or coerced or a combination, or all three. Certainly all were uninformed.

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Gefion
Gefion
2 years ago
Reply to  Epi

Many took them to keep their jobs.

Many also took them to go on holiday…

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Jon Mors
Jon Mors
2 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Many people who would score highly on an IQ test have enthusiastically had themselves injected. We see this on a societal scale in places like South Korea and Japan. Conversely, many lower IQ individuals have decided that this wasn’t the time to start trusting the man.

Must have to do with something else, pathological conformism perhaps.

In any case, whatever it is I’m all out of sympathy.

It’s a horrible thing to say, but the best thing that could happen for our societies is that side-effects (a dumb term, as I’m not sure what the primary effect is given how ineffective these damn things are) are sufficient enough in number and severe enough, to cause riots and calls for retribution.

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Gefion
Gefion
2 years ago
Reply to  Jon Mors

The people I know took them because they are ‘good’ members of society and want to be recognised as such. There is/was a lot of virtue signalling around the vaccines and boosters.Churches encouraged them to take the vaccines too and where I live in Scotland people are still testing themselves before they go to church or events. Presumably they are using up their stockpiles of LFTs so who knows what happens when they run out.

A large number of these people are ‘clever’ people with degrees and qualifications but don’t see the effects of the vaccines. They are mystified and hugely sympathetic to people who are having Covid for the umpteenth time.

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Rowan
Rowan
2 years ago
Reply to  Jon Mors

Clearly IQ tests don’t count for much in this regard. As for your last paragraph, I am very much in sympathy with your sentiments, but regrettably I can’t really envisage the dumb-downed UK public rioting, even if they were knee deep in Covid injected bodies.

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Rowan
Rowan
2 years ago
Reply to  True Spirit of America Party

Everything is going to plan.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago

aba daba monkey honeymoon at DuckDuckGo

Are these China’s WHO declared “global health emergencies” going to be a regular thing now then?

The thing is, they’re so brazen about it. Radio 4 reported earlier that a global health emergency will mean among other things producing more vaccines. Mark my words, there are vested political and financial interests involved in this or I’m a monkey!

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Rowan
Rowan
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

The WHO belongs to Bill Gates.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

China’s WHO.

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Rowan
Rowan
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

https://www.dw.com/en/what-influence-does-china-have-over-the-who/a-53161220.

In 2018/19, the last full year before Covid, China generously stumped up the princely sum of $86 million for the WHO. However, the US topped the list with $893 million. In second place was dear old Billy Gates with $531 million, presumably paid out of his back pocket. In third place was the UK with $435 million.

China’s WHO? Give us a break.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

I understand that the CCP influence the WHO in other ways than financial contributions. Others probably know more about this than me.

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Rowan
Rowan
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

He who pays the piper…

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

There was a similar thing with Russia. People said their economy was similar in size to Italy’s. But money goes further in Russia and Russia has a large army, which is still what wins wars. And the fact remains that China’s WHO seem to have been pretty compliant over the China virus. This has been discussed previously on this forum. I can’t remember the details, but perhaps someone who does know still contributes and could tell us.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Hey, maybe we’re both right (as Homer Simpson might say)…

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Rowan
Rowan
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

He who pays the piper…

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

“You can’t bribe a judge”.

“With money, no. But with whisky…” (Dad’s Army).

More than one way to skin a cat you know. And China are very keen on one world government (as long as it’s socialist with a Chinese character – hence the normalising of Chinese totalitarian measures over the last two years). Mark my words, they have plenty of influence and know how to use it.

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Epi
Epi
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Or a monkey’s uncle.

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago

I for one am terrified.

I’ve got two masks and three condoms on at all times. NHS app.at the ready and standing by for three or four shots of a vaccine.

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JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Just three or four shots and you think you’re done? What are you, some kind of anti-vaxxer kook? Everyone knows that is NOT how vaccines work.
A vaccine as currently defined means 3 or 4 shots every year for the rest of your life. Or is that 3 or 4 shots every week? The Science changes so fast these days I can’t keep up. Following the money $cience is sooo hard.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

BINGO

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

So does this mean I can have unprotected sex with anything that moves? After all, your condom protects me!

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

Zing!

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NickR
NickR
2 years ago

This is how you produce a terrifying scare. The attached chart is based on 56 monkeypox cases back in mid May. We’re now being told that there have been 2,000 or so as of mid July, this suggests an R of 0.055. By mid Nov this would mean 1m cases, by the end of Jan 23 the entire population will have been infected……. unless of course you manage to avoid gay casual sex.
These projections are all hysterical nonsense. Like with so much these days, there’s a concerted effort to persuade people to believe absolute nonsense.

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NickR
NickR
2 years ago
Reply to  NickR

Apparently Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus overruled his committee (the 1st time this has happened) to impose this.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  NickR

“Like with so much these days, there’s a concerted effort to persuade people to believe absolute nonsense”.

In contrast to the medieval time when people were trying to increase knowledge and become more civilised (Oxford University and Magna Carta for a start).

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  NickR

Reminds me of the chart of a certain failed physicist that tried to play epidemiologist back in March 2020…what was his name again? Professor Pantsdown!

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Uncle Monty
Uncle Monty
2 years ago

This meme.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  Uncle Monty

Aside from the typo in “acquired”, they maybe onto something. Shingles is from the reactivation of dormant chickenpox virus in the nerves, and produces an extremely painful rash. Though that doesn’t explain why so many “monkeypox” rashes seem to be confined to the nether regions, or how it appears to spread akin to a textbook STD for the most part.

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The old bat
The old bat
2 years ago
Reply to  True Spirit of America Party

Shingles only appears on one half of the body. It is also excruciatingly painful (I was given morphine for it at one point). I have seen pictures of monkeypox and it looks as though it covers the whole body. I have seen it suggested that, to look at, monkey pox is indistinguishable from chickenpox, so pity any poor child with soft in the head millenial parents who comes down with chicken pox, because you just know they are going to jump to conclusions.
Also, isn’t there something about a chimpanzee adenovirus being used in the manufacture of the clot shots?

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Rowan
Rowan
2 years ago
Reply to  True Spirit of America Party

Why wouldn’t something that totally screws up the immune system not reactivate a long dormant STD besides causing a whole host of other nasty health problems?

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RW
RW
2 years ago

The interesting question is what does the WHO now plan to do about it? At least in New York, even the faintest suggestion that sex orgies among men might be a little imprudent at the moment is considered so discriminatory that it’s completely off limits. As Eugyppius recently quipped (paraphrase), for the so-called public health authorities. pretty much all of the private and public life of all people is nothing but a perfectly expendable health hazard. But anonymous male – male mass intercourse is the very definition of essential.

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JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

Don’t worry, I’m sure Ferguson et al. are working on a model and pretty graphs showing us that while we were worrying about the winter corona wave Ukraine the spring corona wave keeping the lights on the summer corona wave, there has been exponential (!) asymptomatic (oh no!!) spread of monkeypox through the straight and lesbian population at a far faster rate than realised, and that the spread among children is out of control (they won’t make the mistake they made with corona and let the kiddies get away this time). As with corona, the main symptoms of monkeypox will become clearer with time, when we realise that those who suffer the worst form will have blisters, spots and pustules that they cannot see and cannot feel and tricks the sufferer into believing they feel perfectly fine. And it is even more infectious than the most infectious corona variant, even from 100 feet away. We will long for the days of simple masking, as we are told to wrap ourselves in clingfilm from head to foot for the 50-day incubation period.

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Nearhorburian
Nearhorburian
2 years ago

Who was it who described homosexual males as human petri dishes?

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago

I don’t want to be overly optimistic, but I don’t think people are going to buy this. Even the covidians I know think monkeypox is a joke.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago

AIDS “crisis” all over again.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago

Monkeypox–just drop the “k” and you get MONEYPOX. Because that’s what’s it’s really all about.

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mariawarmth
mariawarmth
2 years ago

They are up to no good as usual.Keeping people on edge for what they have planned comes next? So conniving.
If this amount of low numbers triggers a national emergency the next thing will be upgraded to an Stella interplanetary solar system lockdown. Tell Elon.

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Sontol
Sontol
2 years ago

If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite amount of time to tap randomly on keyboards they still wouldn’t come up with a single WHO declaration.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  Sontol

Infinity is a very large amount you know. I’ve been meaning to ask the believers in mathematical impossibilities neo-Darwinist types about their beliefs on how likely something has to be to be able to be repeated an indefinite amount of times given sufficient time, space and resources; how likely something has to be to be able to happen, but only happen once even given infinite time, space and resources; and how unlikely something has to be to not be able to happen at all through natural causes even given infinite time, space and matter. I suspect nobody will know what I’m on about…

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Sontol
Sontol
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Hey, don’t call me nobody! 🙂

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mariawarmth
mariawarmth
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

WHO doesn’t ?

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mariawarmth
mariawarmth
2 years ago
Reply to  mariawarmth

Like your post funny 😊but on point

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Myra
Myra
2 years ago

Pandemic emergencies used to mean significant fatalities, until this was removed from the definition.
So here we are…Monkeypox…

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
2 years ago

It’s a good job it doesn’t spread achimptomatically.
Kudos to whoever thought of that first.

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  Sforzesca

…do you think they will try to track you with a microchimp?

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/world-map.html

CDC Monkeypox tracker…

As the countries who number cases in the ‘thousands’ are either in Europe or the US, expect the promotion of jabs..lockdowns..and distancing to start!!

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
2 years ago

Given by men to men…..Fauci recommends derriere masks and Gorilla glue to seal the cheeks. That should stop Resident Biden cheating at the mid-terms.

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago

“Jabba, jabba, jabba says the monkey to the chimp”

Going forward, the WHO will declare a pandemic whenever it feels like it. This is about power, control and money …… and nothing else.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago

Watch out for that Monkeypox iceberg.

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CrisBCT
CrisBCT
2 years ago

Actually the WHO experts voted 6-3 against the move, but Tedros – who is NOT a doctor – ignored his medically qualified colleagues and decided to issue the highly questionable declaration anyway.

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