The U.S. and Mexico are asking the WHO to declare a public health emergency after hundreds were lured from several countries and 24 U.S. states to get cosmetic operations in two facilities in Mexico that may have exposed them to a deadly fungus.
Authorities in the U.S. and Mexico have asked the World Health Organization to declare a public health emergency of international concern over a, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official said Friday. The request comes after recruiters lured hundreds of patients from multiple countries and 24 U.S. states to two facilities in Mexico for cosmetic operations that may have exposed them to the fungus.
Recent test results from authorities in Mexico have sparked concern of a repeat from another deadly outbreak that was linked to surgeries elsewhere in Mexico earlier this year. In that outbreak, nearly half of all patients diagnosed with meningitis died. would have to be convened first before an international emergency is declared by the agency's director-general. While countries must notify WHO of all potential emergencies, not all end up reaching that stage.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services did not provide an answer to a request for comment.Americans who had surgeries involving epidural anesthesia at either of these clinics since January to go immediately to the emergency room or an urgent care facility, even if they do not currently think they have symptoms. as far north as Alaska were potentially exposed during surgeries at one of the two clinics, according to a list provided by Mexican authorities to the CDC.
"All have been notified, and are under evaluation, and we were working with transplant centers and other partners to properly manage these patients who had these organs transplanted into their bodies," the CDC's Dallas Smith told aguidance for doctors"Because patients in Mexico, the United States, Canada, and Colombia were on the exposed list, we wanted to make sure these countries were aware, and provide such situational awareness, through a public health emergency of...
Authorities have not yet confirmed the cause of the outbreak. Results from U.S. patients so far have been inconclusive for tracking down the fungus. Medications used during anesthesia in the current outbreak may have been contaminated, Smith said, either in the epidural itself or in other medications that are added in conjunction during the surgeries like morphine.
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