L’Organisation mondiale de la sant\u00e9 (OMS) a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 le samedi 23 juillet, une \u00ab urgence de sant\u00e9 publique de port\u00e9e internationale \u00bb (USPPI), soit son plus haut niveau d\u2019alerte, pour tenter de freiner la propagation de l’\u00e9pid\u00e9mie de variole du singe qui a d\u00e9j\u00e0 contamin\u00e9 pr\u00e8s de 17 000 personnes dans 74 pays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00ab J’ai d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de d\u00e9clarer une urgence de sant\u00e9 publique de port\u00e9e internationale \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 le directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l\u2019organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (photo), pr\u00e9cisant que les avis d\u2019un comit\u00e9 d\u2019experts de l\u2019OMS ont diverg\u00e9 sur la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de d\u00e9clencher le plus haut niveau d\u2019alerte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Neuf membres de ce comit\u00e9 d’experts qui s’est r\u00e9uni le mercredi 20 juillet \u00e9taient contre la qualification d\u2019urgence de sant\u00e9 publique de port\u00e9e internationale (USPPI) et six en faveur. Ce qui a amen\u00e9 le directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l\u2019OMS \u00e0 trancher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cette qualification est d\u00e9finie comme un \u00ab \u00e9v\u00e9nement extraordinaire \u00bb dont la propagation constitue un \u00ab risque pour la sant\u00e9 publique dans d’autres Etats \u00bb et pouvant n\u00e9cessiter \u00ab une action internationale coordonn\u00e9e \u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Selon le r\u00e8glement sanitaire international, la d\u00e9claration d\u2019USPPI oblige les Etats \u00e0 renforcer la surveillance et les actions contre la maladie ainsi qu\u2019\u00e0 notifier \u00e0 l\u2019OMS les risques sur son territoire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Risque relativement mod\u00e9r\u00e9<\/p>\n\n\n\n
La qualification de la variole du singe d\u2019USPPI vise \u00e9galement \u00e0 faciliter une r\u00e9action internationale coordonn\u00e9e et une plus grande collaboration sur le partage des vaccins et des traitements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Le patron de l\u2019OMS a cependant pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 que le risque pos\u00e9 par la maladie dans le monde est \u00ab relativement mod\u00e9r\u00e9 \u00bb \u00e0 part l\u2019Europe o\u00f9 il est \u00e9lev\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00ab Bien que je d\u00e9clare une urgence de sant\u00e9 publique de pr\u00e9occupation internationale, pour le moment, il s’agit d’une \u00e9pid\u00e9mie qui concerne des hommes qui ont des relations sexuelles avec des hommes, et en particulier ceux qui ont des partenaires multiples. Ce qui veut dire qu\u2019elle peut \u00eatre stopp\u00e9e avec les bonnes strat\u00e9gies dans le bon groupe \u00bb, a-t-il expliqu\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maladie cousine moins dangereuse de la variole \u00e9radiqu\u00e9e depuis une quarantaine d’ann\u00e9es, la variole du singe est end\u00e9mique dans certains pays d\u2019Afrique subsaharienne comme la R\u00e9publique centrafricaine, la RDC et le Nigeria. Elle se propage cependant, depuis d\u00e9but mai dernier, dans plusieurs pays o\u00f9 elle \u00e9tait jusque-l\u00e0 extr\u00eamement rare, notamment en Europe et en Am\u00e9rique du Nord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Selon un bilan du Centre am\u00e9ricain pour le contr\u00f4le et la pr\u00e9vention des maladies (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC) arr\u00eat\u00e9 au vendredi 22 juillet, la maladie a frapp\u00e9 plus de 16 836 personnes dans 74 pays. La majorit\u00e9 des malades sont des hommes ayant des relations sexuelles avec des hommes, relativement jeunes, et vivant essentiellement en ville, d\u2019apr\u00e8s l’OMS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
L’Organisation mondiale de la sant\u00e9 (OMS) a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 le samedi 23 juillet, une \u00ab urgence de sant\u00e9 publique de port\u00e9e internationale \u00bb (USPPI), soit son plus haut niveau d\u2019alerte, pour tenter de freiner la propagation de l’\u00e9pid\u00e9mie de variole du singe qui a d\u00e9j\u00e0 contamin\u00e9 pr\u00e8s de 17 000 personnes dans 74 pays. \u00ab J’ai […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_review":[],"enable_review":"","type":"","name":"","summary":"","brand":"","sku":"","good":[],"bad":[],"score_override":"","override_value":"","rating":[],"price":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[4641,4589,8751],"class_list":["post-42033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-health","tag-loms","tag-sante-publique","tag-urgence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42034,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42033\/revisions\/42034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}