Coronavirus: what other public health emergencies has the WHO declared?
by Nicola Davis from Science | The Guardian on (#4YPBA)
Five previous emergencies declared since 2009 with some still active
The Wuhan coronavirus is just the latest disease that the World Health Organization (WHO) has labelled as a "public health emergency of international concern" (PHEIC). In the past 10 years there have been five other such announcements, covering four diseases.
However, the Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (Mers) coronavirus, first identified in 2012, and the yellow fever outbreak in Angola that emerged in late 2015 are not among them, despite emergency committees convening.
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