WHO declares mpox a global health emergency
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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The World Health Organization has declared mpox, formerly Monkey Pox, a global public health emergency. A new strain of the virus has raised concerns due to its rapid transmission. Also, green tea is a major industry in Shizuoka prefecture, on Japan’s Pacific coast. Google “Shizuoka” and you’ll find images of hillsides covered in neat rows of bright-green tea bushes, with Mt. Fuji in the background. But that scenery is changing, with some tea farmers calling it quits and others scrambling to innovate for economic survival. And, a herd of artsy elephants is traveling with a message, as part of an exhibit. These are replicas of real-life elephants made by a community of artisans in southern India.
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| 0:00.0 | And POCS has been around since the 1970s in West and Central Africa, but never like this. |
| 0:10.4 | This Clade 1B, as we call it, is much more transmissible and it's causing severe disease and particularly in children. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm Marco Worman and I'm Carolyn Beeler. The US sells weapons to lots of countries. |
| 0:24.0 | Some turn those weapons on civilians. |
| 0:26.6 | We are hemorrhaging diplomatic credibility, not just in the region, but throughout the world. |
| 0:33.0 | Also lost love, the relationships between Spanish women and Moroccan men that were once illegal, |
| 0:39.0 | plus imitation elephants coming soon to a large open space near you. |
| 0:43.0 | We have about 50 life-size anatomically perfect |
| 0:48.0 | recreations of real-wild elephants, |
| 0:50.0 | sort of meandering along. |
| 0:51.0 | That's all ahead today on the world. |
| 0:54.0 | This is the world. |
| 0:59.0 | This is the world. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Marco Werman. And I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 1:01.0 | Thank you for joining us today. Scientists are rushing to understand |
| 1:05.2 | the new MPOC strain that is spreading out from the Democratic Republic of Congo. They're concerned |
| 1:10.0 | that it's changing fast and they don't have the resources to properly track it. |
| 1:14.8 | Cases of empox have been identified in at least 18 countries in Africa. |
| 1:19.2 | And yet the first empox vaccines are only just arriving on the continent this week. |
| 1:24.8 | Dr Helen Reese co-chairs the team overseeing South Africa's response to Empox. |
| 1:29.5 | We reached her in Johannesburg. |
| 1:31.3 | Empox has been around for a long time since the 1970s in both Central Africa and West Africa, |
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