« FFFT3 Home | Email msg. | Reply to msg. | Post new | Board info. Previous | Home | Next

World Health Organization Declares Ebola a Public Health Emergency

By: clo in FFFT3 | Recommend this post (0)
Fri, 08 Aug 14 2:09 PM | 47 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Food For Further Thought 3
Msg. 01118 of 65535
Jump:
Jump to board:
Jump to msg. #

World Health Organization Declares Ebola a Public
Health Emergency

The World Health Organization on Friday declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency, only the third declaration of its kind since regulations permitting it to do so were adopted in 2007.

But it said there should be no general international travel or trade bans because of the outbreak.

The declaration represented a newly aggressive stance by the health organization. In the past, it has often bent to pressure from member states demanding no consequences even as epidemics raged inside their borders and sometimes slipped over them.

READ MORE »
http://www.nytimes.com?emc=edit_na_20140808




Avatar

DO SOMETHING!




» You can also:
« FFFT3 Home | Email msg. | Reply to msg. | Post new | Board info. Previous | Home | Next