At the time there are also suspicions about Tedros’s motives, especially given the upcoming Pandemic Treaty vote. Some experts believed that the necessary tools are available to control monkeypox and that the mortality rate is low, questioning the need for a public health emergency of international concern (“PHEIC”).
Additionally, there are concerns about fearmongering and an orchestrated perception of a pandemic. Furthermore, a tabletop exercise in March 2021 involving global leaders and experts discussed combating a bioterror monkeypox threat scheduled to commence in May 2022, at the very time Tedros declared mpox to be a PHEIC.
The following is the article ‘What is really going on with monkeypox? Part 1’ originally published by the Gold Report. It is the first in a series.
WHO general director Tedros Ghebreyesus is expected to again declare monkeypox (now also called mpox) to be a PHEIC (public health emergency of international concern), as Camus tweeted below. Tedros cited the spread of monkeypox to other African countries outside of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the “potential for international spread inside and outside of Africa” as reasons for considering an emergency declaration.....<<<Read More>>>...