{"id":1157,"date":"2016-11-20T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knightmode.com\/wp\/2016\/11\/20\/zika-an-international-emergency\/"},"modified":"2016-11-20T03:08:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T03:08:00","slug":"zika-an-international-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knightmode.com\/wp\/zika-an-international-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Zika: An International Emergency?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nThe WHO’s Emergency
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\ninternational concern (PHEIC) in February, said in a statement that they felt
\nthat “the Zika virus and associated consequences remain a significant
\nenduring public health challenge requiring intense action but no longer
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\n“We are not
\ndowngrading the importance of Zika, by placing this as a longer program of
\nwork, we are sending the message that Zika is here to stay,” Dr. Peter
\nSalama, Executive Director of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, told a news
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The World Health Organization (WHO) declared on Friday that the Zika virus and related neurological complications no longer constitute an international emergency but said that it would continue to work on the outbreak through a “robust program”. The WHO’s Emergency Committee, which declared an international public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) in February, said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-posts","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightmode.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightmode.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightmode.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightmode.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightmode.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/knightmode.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightmode.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightmode.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightmode.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}