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Monkeypox Updates

Aug 15, 2022

Photo credit During the past months, the number of cases of Monkeypox victims have been rising. In the data received by the WHO, from January 2022 to August 2022, 31,800 cases were confirmed on Aug. 9, 2022. That includes 9 deaths from 83 member states in six World Health Organization Regions. The nine fatal cases were from Brazil (1), India (1), Nigeria (3), Spain (2), and the Central African Republic (2). As of august 2,...

U.S. Could Have Had Many More Doses of Monkeypox Vaccine This Year

Aug 05, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services delayed asking the manufacturer to process the bulk vaccine the government already owned into vials. WASHINGTON — The shortage of vaccines to combat a fast-growing monkeypox outbreak was caused in part because the Department of Health and Human Services failed early on to ask that bulk stocks of the vaccine it already owned be bottled for distribution, according to multiple administration...

Monkeypox: WHO reports 5,322 lab-confirmed cases in 53 countries

Jul 06, 2022

Of these, 85% are in Europe, followed by the African region, the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Pacific, says WHO "From January 1 to June 30 this year, we have 5,322 laboratory-confirmed cases and one death," from 53 countries, WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib told reporters. Of these, "85 per cent are in Europe, followed by the African region, the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Pacific", she...

Monkeypox is not a public health emergency, according to the WHO

Jul 05, 2022

Following a meeting of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee (EC), the World Health Organization announced on June 25 that the multi-country monkeypox outbreak is not a public health emergency of international concern. The WHO’s decision to weigh the severity of the outbreak drew criticism from African scientists who’ve said the virus had been a threat for years. Monkeypox, which is...

Monkeypox Trend

Jun 24, 2022

The Monkeypoxvirus has been spreading worldwide in the past months and has been reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) that since may 13, 2022, multiple cases from 28 member states across four WHO regions (Regions of the Americas, European, Eastern Mediterranean and Western Pacific Regions) where Monkeypoxvirus isnt reported. Since the beggining of these year, 1536 suspected cases were reported from eight countries in the WHO African...

What is Monkeypox?

May 30, 2022

Monkeypox virus is an orthopoxvirus that has symptoms same as the Smallpox virus but less severe. There are two distinct clade of this virus identified: The West African clade and the Congo clade, also known as the Central African Clade. It is a Zoonosis, which means that the virus is transmitted from an animal to a human being. Thus, this virus is usually found in areas where Tropical Rain Forests are near because of the animals that...

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