Category: Monkeypox
Confused about the mpox outbreaks? Here’s what’s spreading, where, and why
Science The decision by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization to declare back-to-back public health emergencies over the spread of mpox last week have rekindled global interest in the disease. But the facts have been confusing. Is the mpox virus spreading rapidly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighboring […]
Aug 27, 2024
Germany to donate 100,000 mpox vaccine doses to combat outbreak in Africa
Reuters Germany will donate 100,000 mpox vaccine doses from its military stocks to help contain the outbreak on the African continent in the short term as well as provide help to the affected countries, said a government spokesperson on Monday. The government will provide the World Health Organization with flexible financial resources via various instruments […]
Aug 27, 2024
WHO launches plan to stanch mpox transmission and says the virus can be stopped
Abc News The U.N. health agency has launched a six-month plan to help stanch outbreaks of mpox transmission. The U.N. health agency on Monday launched a six-month plan to help stanch outbreaks of mpox transmission, including ramping up staffing in affected countries and boosting surveillance, prevention and response strategies. The World Health Organization said it […]
Aug 27, 2024
Argentina quarantines grains ship over suspected mpox case
Reuters Argentine authorities have quarantined a cargo ship in the Parana River over a suspected case of mpox onboard, the government said on Tuesday, as global public health authorities remain on alert for a new faster-spreading variant of the virus. The quarantined Liberian-flagged ship was sailing from Santos, Brazil – also a major commodities hub […]
Aug 21, 2024
Thailand says mpox case recorded in traveller from Africa
Reuters Thailand has detected an mpox case in a European man who arrived from Africa last week and is awaiting test results to determine the strain, a disease control official said on Wednesday. Thai authorities were treating the case as if it were the Clade 1 form of mpox, as the person, a 66-year-old European […]
Aug 21, 2024
How the World Sleepwalked Into the Global Mpox Emergency
Bloomberg A mutated form of mpox has been circulating in the Democratic Republic of Congo for months. Now the response to what has become a global health emergency faces a key obstacle: The country still doesn’t have a single vaccine. The absence of shots and challenges in understanding the spread of the disease in the […]
Aug 20, 2024
The untold story of how Nigeria’s mpox outbreak sparked a worldwide epidemic
Science Mpox circulated in Nigeria for 8 years before it sparked a global outbreak. What happened? And could it have been stopped? n 1 May 2017, a 35-year-old man with lesions all over his body came to the university hospital in Port Harcourt, an oil industry hub and the capital of Rivers state in southern Nigeria. […]
Aug 20, 2024
NYT The World Health Organization declared a global health emergency over an outbreak that has spread to more than a dozen African countries. Mpox was declared a global health emergency on Wednesday for the second time in three years, as the World Health Organization urged action on a virus spreading rapidly through more than a dozen African […]
Aug 20, 2024
Mpox Case in Sweden Sets Off Concerns of Wider Spread in Europe
NYT Experts expect more cases to surface in European countries because of frequent travel to and from Africa, with the threat of contracting the disease raised from “very low” to “low.” The announcement that a new version of mpox had been discovered in Sweden this week was the first indication that the disease had slipped […]
Aug 20, 2024
Mpox is a global health emergency. Will it cause a lockdown like COVID? Experts say no
NBC News Mpox has been declared a global health emergency by WHO. What does this mean and where is it spreading? Experts discuss mpox outbreaks, symptoms, and risk. Mpox is now considered a global health emergency as cases surge in Central Africa and a new subtype of the virus, which causes severe illness, spreads to […]
Aug 20, 2024