UPDATE: Feb. 1, 2016, 1:35 PM ET
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization has announced that the explosive spread of the Zika virus in the Americas is an “extraordinary event” that merits being declared an international emergency.
The agency convened an emergency meeting of independent experts on Monday to assess the outbreak after noting a suspicious link between Zika’s arrival in Brazil last year and a surge in the number of babies born with abnormally small heads.
Although WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan said there was no definitive proof that the Zika virus, spread by mosquitoes, is responsible for the birth defects, she acknowledged on Thursday that “the level of alarm is extremely high.”
The last such public health emergency was declared for the devastating 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which killed more than 11,000 people.
WHO estimates there could be up to 4 million cases of Zika in the Americas in the next year.
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I was in Iguazu Argentina 2 days ago ( where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay all meet ) and saw one of these babies in the airport. This is some very serious stuff and there are almost no resources available to combat it.
I think it is truly unfortunate Obama refuses to do anything about the Zika Virus and wants us all to die from it.*
*Coming soon to a GOP candidate for President speech near you. And Andrea Tantaros.
Zika was fird ID’d in 1947…so you’d have to invove a few other POTUS’s including St. Ronnie. Can’t do that so Obama may escape.
It depends on when President Obama knew what he knew and when did he know, or unknow it, as the case may be… /S