Health Jul 30 Spain and Brazil report monkeypox deaths The ministry based in Madrid said both fatalities were young men. It reported its first death on Friday, the same day that Brazil also reported its first death from monkeypox.
Health Jul 23 WHO chief declares monkeypox a global emergency WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the decision to issue the declaration despite a lack of consensus among experts serving on the U.N. health agency's emergency committee. It was the first time the chief of the U.N. health agency has…
Health Jul 21 WHO reconsiders whether to declare monkeypox a global crisis The World Health Organization has convened its emergency committee to consider for the second time within weeks whether the expanding outbreak of monkeypox should be declared a global crisis.
Health Jun 23 WHO considers declaring growing monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency The World Health Organization convenes its emergency committee Thursday to consider if the spiraling outbreak of monkeypox warrants being declared a global emergency.
World Jun 01 As resources go to fight European and American monkeypox outbreaks, some see inequity in African response As health authorities in Europe and elsewhere scramble to roll out vaccines and drugs to stamp out the biggest monkeypox outbreak beyond Africa, some doctors are acknowledging an ugly reality: The resources needed to prevent the disease have long been…
World May 30 WHO’s top monkeypox expert says disease unlikely to become global pandemic The World Health Organization's top monkeypox expert said she doesn't expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns about the disease, including how exactly it's spreading and whether…
World May 27 WHO calls monkeypox outbreaks containable, proposes stockpile to share vaccines and treatment The World Health Organization says nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have been reported in more than 20 countries not usually known to have outbreaks of the unusual disease, but described the epidemic as “containable."…
Health May 23 What you need to know about monkeypox and how it spreads European and American health authorities have identified a number of cases of monkeypox, a surprising outbreak of an illness that has previously been limited mostly to central and western Africa.
Health May 23 Monkeypox outbreak likely spread by sex at 2 raves in Europe, says WHO expert A doctor who chairs a World Health Organization expert group has described the unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox in developed countries as "a random event" that might be explained by risky sexual behavior at two recent mass events…
World May 20 80 confirmed worldwide cases of monkeypox baffle African scientists who have long studied the disease Scientists who have monitored numerous outbreaks of monkeypox in Africa say they are baffled by the disease's recent spread in Europe and North America.