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At their Wednesday press conference, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, raised concerns over the state of the globe.

To date, more than 5,000 monkeypox cases have been reported from 51 countries worldwide, according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

The World Health Organization reported that the Emergency Committee did not feel the current state of the monkeypox epidemic constituted a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).

Monkeypox Virus: The European Union's drug regulator European Medicines Agency said it had started formally reviewing the use of a smallpox vaccine Imvanex to treat a growing number of cases of monkeypox.

As people recover from COVID, their immune system is impaired. So people who have had COVID may be more susceptible to other infections.

The World Health Network released a statement on Wednesday calling the current outbreak of monkeypox infections across the globe a pandemic and demanding the WHO declare a public health emergency of international concern. Deliberations are underway in Geneva as the emergency committee convened on Thursday, June 23, 2022.

South Korea has confirmed the first case of monkeypox infection in the country and has raised the nation’s alert level for the disease to “caution,” the second of the four alert levels.

The state of Florida in the US has seen one of the worst outbreaks of meningococcal disease among gay and bisexual men in the history of the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).At least 24 cases and six ...

RITM can now detect Monkeypox virus

JAMAICA is now able to conduct testing for the Monkeypox virus, the health ministry said in a release Friday. This follows a recent regional training in laboratory detection and diagnosis of the ...