WHO on US intent to withdraw

[struggle4progress]

21 January 2025 Statement Geneva

The World Health Organization regrets the announcement that the United States of America intends to withdraw from the Organization.

WHO plays a crucial role in protecting the health and security of the world’s people, including Americans, by addressing the root causes of disease, building stronger health systems, and detecting, preventing and responding to health emergencies, including disease outbreaks, often in dangerous places where others cannot go.

The United States was a founding member of WHO in 1948 and has participated in shaping and governing WHO’s work ever since, alongside 193 other Member States, including through its active participation in the World Health Assembly and Executive Board. For over seven decades, WHO and the USA have saved countless lives and protected Americans and all people from health threats. Together, we ended smallpox, and together we have brought polio to the brink of eradication. American institutions have contributed to and benefited from membership of WHO ...

https://www.who.int/news/item/21-01-2025-who-comments-on-united-states--announcement-of-intent-to-withdraw

[struggle4progress]

1. Tanzania confirms outbreak of Marburg virus

20 January 2025

Dodoma – Tanzania today confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus disease in the northwestern Kagera region after one case tested positive for the virus following investigations and laboratory analysis of suspected cases of the disease.

President of the Republic of Tanzania, Her Excellency Samia Suluhu Hassan, made the announcement during a press briefing alongside World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in the country’s administrative capital Dodoma.

“Laboratory tests conducted at Kabaile Mobile Laboratory in Kagera and later confirmed in Dar es Salaam identified one patient as being infected with the Marburg virus. Fortunately, the remaining suspected patients tested negative,” the president said. “We have demonstrated in the past our ability to contain a similar outbreak and are determined to do the same this time around” ...

https://www.afro.who.int/countries/united-republic-of-tanzania/news/tanzania-confirms-outbreak-marburg-virus-disease

[SheltieLover]

6. This disease has a very high mortality rate.

Maybe pootin has offered slobby rubles for dead Americans?

[struggle4progress]

2. Chapare haemorrhagic fever- the Plurinational State of Bolivia

20 January 2025

On 7 January 2025, the International Health Regulations National Focal Point for the Plurinational State of Bolivia notified WHO of a laboratory-confirmed case of Chapare virus infection in an adult male from La Paz Department. Chapare haemorrhagic fever is an acute viral illness caused by Chapare virus. The virus was first identified in 2003 in Bolivia and has been associated with five documented outbreaks to date, all occurring within the country. These outbreaks have primarily affected rural areas in the La Paz Department, with the most recent case. There is no significant risk of international spread of the disease, as person-to-person transmission of the Chapare virus is possible but remains rare in the general population. As of 13 January 2025, no secondary cases have been reported, and all contacts remain without symptoms. Public health measures, such as disinfection and rodent control, have been implemented ...

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2025-DON553

[struggle4progress]

3. Addressing prostate cancer and promoting men's sexual and reproductive health

21 January 2025 13:00 – 14:30 UTC Time WHO B building, Z4, Geneva, Switzerland or Online

Prostate cancer is the fourth most common among all cancers in the world.

Join us to learn about:

global perspectives on men’s sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and masculinity,
resources for prostate cancer management in Geneva,
cancer survivor’s perspective ...

https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2025/01/21/default-calendar/addressing-prostate-cancer-and-promoting-men-s-sexual-and-reproductive-health

[struggle4progress]

4. Health experts warn of danger.

... “This is going to be a grave strategic error that will make America less healthy and less safe,” Lawrence Gostin, a global public health expert and the faculty director of Georgetown University’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, told USA TODAY.

“The withdrawal itself is going to isolate the United States,” Gostin said. “It’ll isolate us diplomatically, and it’ll isolate us in pandemic response” ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2025/01/20/trump-orders-us-exit-world-health-organization/77772989007/

[SheltieLover]

7. Of course it will isolate the USA. Likely slobby's intention.

What would please pootin more?

And ivictim solation is the first thing all abusers seek.

[Irish_Dem]

9. The PutinGOP goal is to weaken and endanger the US.

Mission accomplished.

[struggle4progress]

5. Germany to lobby Trump on WHO withdrawal

GENEVA/BERLIN, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Berlin will try to talk U.S. President Donald Trump out of his decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, Germany's health minister said on Tuesday.

The U.N. agency also said that it hoped that its top donor country would change its mind and looked forward to a constructive dialogue with Trump's team ...

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-hopes-us-will-reconsider-withdrawal-global-health-agency-2025-01-21/

[SheltieLover]

8. I hope they are successful!

But slobby wants to grift that stash of money.

[Johnny2X2X]

10. WHO has effectively fought disease woldwide for decades

That's why we're pulling out, Trump and the Nazi Party he leads don't want to help developing countries anymore.

Like with most areas the US cedes leadership and power in, China will step in to fill the void and strengthen their relationships with developing countries for eventual economic domination of.

[hunter]

11. Other than the wealthy and upper middle classes, the U.S.A. has always been a "developing nation."

Big city homeless camps and extreme rural poverty have never been an anomaly.

It seems the wealthy fascists just want all the poor people to die.

Pandemics don't work that way. From the perspective of a killer bacterium or virus we are all the same meat, rich or poor. Nobody lives in complete isolation from the rest of the world.

[Johnny2X2X]

12. WHO exists to do a lot more than fight pandemics

In fact, most of their work is around other things. They help with clean water, nutrition, and childhood development. They have programs for stopping the spread of HIV, providing health care for women and infants, stopping outbreaks like Cholera, Dengue Fever, and Molaria. They help kids in devloping areas get needed surgeries and treatments. They coordinate programs for the blind and the deaf. On and on, they're basically a giant charity that gets help to hundreds of millions of people in need. They even coordinate famine relief. The have programs for elder care.

Only the Red Cross is a larger relief organization globally than the WHO.

[hunter]

13. Sociopaths don't care about anyone who is not useful to them.

They don't recognize the common humanity of us all, that we are all one people, all eight billion of us.

Nor do they recognize that we all share a single biosphere, that what harms this biosphere harms all of us.

[Johnny2X2X]

14. And you can't even get this group of sociopaths to recoginze the economic opportunities

With their isolationism, they can't recognize that helping developing nations with their health problems creates better and more prosperous trading partners and a better global economy in the long run. But as I said, China will fill the gap and reap the benefits, but they will do so with more strings attached to control these countries.

[karynnj]

15. True and ironically, it is the 1950s, a time of less inequality, that some Republicans

want to return to. A larger middle class is better for democracy.

[Kid Berwyn]

16. Shame on Trump and his supporters.

ALL OF THEM.

[Fla Dem]

17. One of the most asinine actions the idiot could make.

[bigtree]

18. the founding member, the world leader in public health

...a position surrendered and relinquished to the rest of the world by the incoming republican president.

[Horse with no Name]

19. They shouldn't share anything with the US

Ever again.

[Initech]

20. 100% everything yesterday was pent up revenge for 2020.

And I suspect there may be plenty more where that came from. What a bunch of psychopaths!

[La Coliniere]

21. A horrible and dangerous decision.

My disgust for the felon and his enablers increases by the minute. This is unforgivable, as is all the other shit he signed off on during the last 24 hours. Cruelty and ignorance is now the framework in which our nation exists. Can’t say we weren’t warned.

[Mr. Sparkle]

22. Trump cant remove us from the World Health Organization, its needs to be an act from congress

Link to tweet

Trump made a unilateral decision to pull out of WHO. But we joined WHO in 1948 by an act of Congress. Trump needs Congress' approval to withdraw. His decision is too catastrophic to be made without Congress and the courts. As director of a WHO Center, I am considering a lawsuit.

[Maru Kitteh]

23. Don't know if you noticed this, but NOTHING MATTERS ANYMORE.

[Mr. Sparkle]

24. Just wait until the shit hits the fan, it wont be long

when they need help, the norms will return.

[Blue_Tires]

25. All that time and effort Biden spent to repair out alliances and restore some level of respectability

all pissed away in a single day...

[Blue_Tires]

26. I'm waiting for one of those smug pundits to explain how exactly this helps the white working class...

[aeromanKC]

27. Silly WHO

Not in Trump's America!!

"WHO plays a crucial role in protecting the health and security of the world’s people, including Americans, by addressing the root causes of disease, building stronger health systems, and detecting, preventing and responding to health emergencies, including disease outbreaks"

[Klarkashton]

28. This is probably on the recommendation of RFK

Robert fucking Kennedy. The brain dead mummy looking asshole.