The World Health Organization's director-general said the monkeypox virus can be stopped with the right strategies as he declared it a global emergency.
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The rare designation may help spur more investment in combatting the once rare disease amid a scramble for scarce vaccines. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the decision despite a lack of consensus among experts on the U.N. health agency's emergency committee, saying he acted as “a tiebreaker.” It was the first time a U.N. health agency chief has unilaterally made such a decision without an expert recommendation.
There is "a clear risk of further international spread," Ghebreyesus said in a statement. "So in short, we have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly, through new modes of transmission, about which we understand too little," he said. "… For all of these reasons, I have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern."
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Mayor Pete gonna get it
Isn’t Pete married to a MAN
Bullshit.
I smell BS 💩👃
I hope Bert and Ernie get a vaccinated Elmo has showed them the way.
Wasn’t the puppet Ted Cruz arguing with Big Bird and Elmo recently?
What’s the deal with Monkeypox and HOMOSEXUALS
YouTube doesn’t want the truth to get out. Lol
Watch BRANDON THE BUFFOON start importing MONKEYS! ❤️🙏
Tedros, have mercy!
The peasants of the earth are worn out.
Have you no heart?
Where is your conscience?
I would like to speak to your overlord.
And soon a 3rd pandemic,they are now modifying and culturing in a lab too and which will
then released to the world
Well damn
scamdemic
Just imagine how foolish the vaccinated must be feeling at this stage in the game 😳
Yeah, Imagine how foolish men that sleep with men are feeling now…. If that’s a wrong thing to say….that’s how ridiculous ur statement sounds.
Lol here we go…
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
This is exactly what we need now as covid pandemic was not enough what a mess and beautiful future of our race the Human race.
In the land of monkey’s the banana is king.
EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL. IMO. PEACE.
Monkeypox (MKP) has spread like wild fires at the Southern Border. I hope all those that cross into the US from those hot swamp lands are given a monkey business vaccine, 3 hots and a cot upon arrival. Good ole fashion southern charm to welcome our foreign neighbors that have come from countries all across the world. Bless your heart.
This is bananas
Happy pride everyone