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WHO Declares Mpox a Global Health Emergency

par This Is Beirut, 14/08 22:19 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday declared the mpox surge in Africa was now a global public health emergency, sounding its highest possible alarm over the worsening situation. The WHO called a meeting of experts to study the outbreak and make a recommendation to the UN health agency's director-general, Tedros Adhanom ...

Pakistan Logs First Mpox Case as Fears Grow of Global Spread

par This Is Beirut, 16/08 13:18 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Pakistan said Friday it had confirmed a case of mpox, a day after Sweden recorded the first infection outside of Africa involving a new, more dangerous strain of the virus that has killed hundreds in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The mpox surge in Africa -- which has also affected Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda -- prompted the World Health ...

Mpox: An International Emergency, but (Still) Not a Pandemic

par Alain E. Andrea, 23/08 12:47 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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In response to the resurgence of mpox, the World Health Organization has declared, for the second time in two years, a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern." However, this viral disease is far from being the "new COVID-19." In 2022, as SARS-CoV-2 was mutating into less virulent strains, monkeypox (mpox) infections were gradually ...

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