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The U.N. health agency chief called for “urgent” scale-up of procurement, donations and rollout to get the vaccine where it is needed most, along with other response measures. File | Photo Credit: AP The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday (September 13, 2024) it has granted its first authorisation for use of a vaccine against…
The hands of a patient with skin rashes caused by the mpox virus are pictured at the treatment center of Vijana Hospital in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo on August 30, 2024 | Photo Credit: Reuters Dozens of feverish patients lay on thin mattresses on the floor of a makeshift mpox isolation ward in east…
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Mpox has been a public health problem in parts of Africa for decades New Delhi: The World Health Organization has declared that an outbreak of mpox, a viral infection that spreads through close contact, represents a global health emergency for the second time in two years. Mpox causes flu-like symptoms and pus-filled lesions. Here’s your…
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Two years after a global outbreak, fears are rife that a new strain of mpox — previously known as monkeypox — identified in DR Congo and now also in several neighbouring countries could further spread. Deadlier and more transmissible than previous forms, the mpox strain surging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since September,…
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Poxviruses have long been a cause of fear as well as curiosity for humankind. One particularly infamous poxvirus, smallpox, alone may have killed more than 500 million people in the last century. Smallpox didn’t discriminate between rich, poor, young, old, and killed a third of the individuals whom it infected. The turning point came with…
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