STAT sought to find the answer. Here’s what you need to know.
1. Medical experts are telling WHO Director-General Margaret Chan that Zika is no longer a public health emergency. The virus is still present in alarming rates, however.
2. Those same experts worry about losing research funding if the WHO downgrades Zika. They’re also afraid reporting efforts will slip.
3. The Zika Virus emergency is only the fourth public health crisis of Ms. Chan’s tenure. There is no indication as to what way Ms. Chan is leaning on the public health scale.
4. The CDC has called its response to the virus “the most complex” it has ever mounted. The CDC had to pull scientists from several different areas to study the wide amount of factors involved with Zika.
The CDC’s principal deputy director Anne Schuchat, MD, urged that Zika must remain on the public’s conscious, but declined to answer whether the virus is still a public health emergency.
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