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WHO to hold emergency meeting on Zika virus
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The World Health Organization will hold an emergency meeting Monday to find ways to battle the Zika virus, which is linked to birth defects and "spreading explosively" throughout the Americas.
The WHO could classify the Zika outbreak as a "public health emergency of international concern," which recognizes that a disease poses a risk of international spread and requires a coordinated global response.
An emergency declaration by the WHO is "something similar to a global Amber Alert for public health," said Susan Kim, deputy director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University in Washington.
"With a global health emergency, unilateral or even bilateral responses won't be enough," Kim said. "An emergency declaration by WHO is a spotlight on the issue, telling the world that this is something the world needs to pay attention to."
The emergency declaration would also "direct many more resources to containing the outbreak," said Amesh Adalja, a senior associate at the Center for Health Security at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. If an emergency is declared, "there is a legal duty to respond promptly to contain the outbreak."
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