Zika No Longer A World Public Health Emergency: WHO
Umer Jamshaid Published November 19, 2016 | 12:10 PM
GENEVA, , (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th Nov, 2016 ) - The World Health Organization has announced that the Zika virus outbreak, linked to deformations in babies' heads and brains, no longer poses a world public health emergency, though it warned the epidemic remains a challenge.
Brazil, the epicentre of the outbreak, has however refused to downgrade the risk, while experts swiftly lashed out against the world health body's decision. "The Zika virus remains a highly significant and long term problem, but it is not any more a public health emergency of international concern," the world health body's emergency committee chair Dr David Heymann said.
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