Health May 05 WHO downgrades COVID-19 pandemic, says it’s no longer global emergency WHO said that even though the emergency phase was over, the pandemic hasn't come to an end, noting recent spikes in cases in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
Science Mar 17 New COVID origins study links pandemic’s beginning to animals, not a lab International scientists have examined previously unavailable genetic data from samples collected at a market in China close to where the first human cases of COVID-19 were detected.
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.