Could you list the disease outbreaks that have been declared as the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)?
The list of diseases that declared as PHEIC as below;
1) In 2009; H1N1 Pandemic,
2) In 2014; Ebola virus in western Africa
3) In 2016, Zika Virus Epidemic
4) In 2019 & 2020; COVID-19 Pandemic
Why do these outbreaks raise such concerns?
This outbreak raise such concerns based on the following four criteria;
1) impact on public health serious
2) unexpected or unusual event
3) significant spread to international
4) risk of any restriction in travel and trade
In your opinion, is there a disease or condition that may potentially lead to PHEIC in the future? Why?
Regarding to my opinion; According to world Malaria report 2024 by WHO In south east Asia including Myanmar, It found out one or more indigenous cases from 2022 to 2023, Malaria may lead to potentially PHEIC in the future if we could not control the cases especially case transmitted to boarder countries because the cases gradually increased after 2021. People are fleeing to cross boarder. In report, it described as ” In Thailand, bordering Myanmar, the number of reported indigenous cases has more than tripled between 2021 (2426 cases) and 2023 (9169 cases) (30), and reported imported cases to Thailand also significantly increased over the same period (2021–2023), from 800 to 7276 cases”
Sources for world malaria report 2024 by WHO:
https://www.who.int/teams/global-malaria-programme/reports/world-malaria-report-2024
