Since 2007, six diseases have been declared PHEIC—swine flu, polio, Ebola, Zika, Kivu Ebola and COVID-19. WHO has been monitoring monkeypox as the spread continues and updating its guidance.

The PHEIC is the loudest alarm bell the WHO can ring on an outbreak. The organization’s initial PHEIC declaration in January 2020 preceded many world- and life-changing events, and an enormous ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Friday it was ending its declaration of COVID-19 as a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), more than three years after it was firs… ...

PHEIC does not mean panic. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO, stressed that the WHO disfavored imposing travel or trade restrictions on China.

The PHEIC declaration on the latest threat by the deadlier strain of mpox raises to the fore the bankruptcy of the entire public health infrastructure under capitalist rule.

This weekend, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the ongoing multicountry monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), sparking renewed pledges from U ...

WHO’s International Health Regulations Emergency Committee discussed the pandemic at its 14th meeting on Covid-19 on January 27, and Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus agreed that the ...

T he World Health Organization (WHO) took the rare step Thursday of declaring a novel coronavirus outbreak that originated in Wuhan, China a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the global monkeypox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The outbreak has now spread to 75 countries with more ...

Declaring a PHEIC could also galvanize global attention to the need to address the outbreak, which has sickened hundreds and killed at least 17 people in China, and led to cases in countries ...

The PHEIC (pronounced like “fake”) gives Tedros certain powers, such as the ability to recommend how countries should respond. It could also rally global coordination for a more unified response.