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WHO / ZIKA VIRUS
STORY: WHO / ZIKA VIRUS
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SOURCE: WHO / IAEA / UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 18 NOVEMBER 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
FILE – IAEA - SEIBERSDORF, AUSTRIA
1. Various shots, mosquito samples in lab
18 NOVEMBER 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. SOUNDBITE (English) David Heymann, Chair of the Emergency Committee on Zika, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The Zika virus and associated complications remain significant and an enduring public health challenge requiring intense action within WHO, but it no longer represents a public health emergency of international concern.”
FILE – IAEA - KALITY, ETHIOPIA
3. Various shots, scientists in lab handling mosquito samples
18 NOVEMBER 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
4. SOUNDBITE (English) David Heymann, Chair of the Emergency Committee on Zika, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Because research has now demonstrated that the Zika virus infection and the microcephaly are associated, the committee felt that what is best now is a very robust technical response to the virus.”
FILE – IAEA - APRIL 2016, SEIBERSDORF, AUSTRIA
5. Med shot, entomologist prepares blood feed for Aedes aegypti females
6. Close up, Aedes aegypti pupae
18 NOVEMBER 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Salama, Executive Director Health Emergencies Programme, WHO:
“We are not downgrading the importance of Zika, in fact by placing this as a longer term of programme of work, we're sending the message that Zika is here to stay and WHO's response is here to stay in a very robust manner.”
FILE – IAEA - BRASILIA, BRAZIL
8. Wide shot, spraying of insecticide for vector control
18 NOVEMBER 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Salama, Executive Director Health Emergencies Programme, WHO:
“We're dealing with long term issues here. We're dealing with management of neurological complications in children and adults. We're dealing with family planning issues, we're dealing with health systems issues, we're dealing with maternal and reproductive health issues and we're dealing with long and comprehensive research and development agenda that needs to be multi years and has been published by WHO just last month.”
FILE – WHO - AUGUST 2012 – HONDURAS
10. Close up, mosquito
11. Med shot, researchers studying mosquitoes
A World Health Organization (WHO) expert today (18 Nov) announced that the Zika virus and associated complications "no longer represents a public health emergency of international concern.”
Dr David Heymann, Chair of the Emergency Committee, speaking via teleconference from Geneva, noted that the virus and associated complications” remain significant and an enduring public health challenge requiring intense action within WHO.”
The WHO official said that “because research has now demonstrated that the Zika virus infection and the microcephaly are associated, the committee felt that what is best now is a very robust technical response to the virus.”
Also from Geneva, the Executive Director of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, said “we are not downgrading the importance of Zika, in fact by placing this as a longer term of programme of work, we're sending the message that Zika is here to stay and WHO's response is here to stay in a very robust manner.”
Salama said “we're dealing with long term issues here. We're dealing with management of neurological complications in children and adults. We're dealing with family planning issues, we're dealing with health systems issues, we're dealing with maternal and reproductive health issues and we're dealing with long and comprehensive research and development agenda that needs to be multi years.”
The fifth meeting of the Emergency Committee (EC) on Zika and microcephaly convened by the Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) regarding microcephaly, other neurological disorders and Zika virus was held by teleconference on 18 November 2016.
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