The World Health Organization will convene an emergency committee next week to consider whether monkey pox outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern. Only the Covid-19 pandemic and polio are currently considered by the WHO to be “emergencies” of international concern. The committee will meet next Thursday, June 23. So far, 1,600 confirmed […]
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Smallpox: More than 1,000 cases in 29 countries – Risk of endemic disease
More than 1,000 cases of smallpox in monkeys have been reported by the World Health Organization worldwide following the recent outbreak of the disease in countries outside Africa. WHO Director-General Dr. Tentros Antanom Gebregesos said the risk of the disease becoming endemic in these countries was real but preventable. So far, 29 countries have reported […]
North Korea: WHO estimates epidemiological situation is deteriorating amid lack of information
The World Health Organization (WHO) says the situation is deteriorating in North Korea, a country facing an outbreak of a new coronavirus pandemic, while criticizing Pyongyang authorities for not informing them that patients’ cases “with fever “are reduced. “So far, we are not in a position to make an accurate assessment of the situation on […]
WHERE: Monkey pox can be stopped if we act now
A senior World Health Organization official said today that stopping smallpox in countries where the disease is not endemic should be a priority, and that this could be achieved if action was taken quickly. “We believe that if we take the right measures now, we can easily stop it,” said Sylvie Brian, WHO Director-General for […]
WHERE: Call for increased monitoring of monkey pox
About 200 confirmed cases and more than 100 suspected cases of monkey pox have been identified so far outside the countries where it usually spreads, a World Health Organization official said today, calling on countries to be vigilant about the infectious disease. Monkey pox, a mild viral infection, is endemic to the African countries of […]
Smallpox: Outbreaks could be controlled in countries where the virus is not endemic
The World Health Organization has no evidence that the monkey pox virus has mutated, a senior WHO official said today, noting that the infectious disease, which is endemic to West and Central Africa, tends not to change. Rosamund Lewis, head of the smallpox secretariat, which is part of the WHO Emergency Management Program, told reporters […]
WHO is expecting more cases of monkey pox internationally
The World Health Organization (WHO) expects other cases of smallpox to be detected as it expands surveillance to countries where the disease is not endemic. As of Saturday, 92 confirmed and 28 suspected cases of smallpox were reported from 12 Member States where the virus is not endemic, the UN agency said, adding that it […]
WHERE: Extraordinary meeting on monkey pox
LAST UPDATE: 18.57 The World Health Organization (WHO) convened a meeting on Friday to discuss monkey pox, a spokesman for the agency said in an email to Reuters, saying the meeting was one of many that take place daily. Earlier, Reuters reported that the committee to be convened is the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group […]
WHERE: Emergency License on Chinese Convidecia Vaccine for Coronavirus
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that it has approved an emergency vaccine for Covid-19, Convidecia, of Chinese laboratories at CanSino Biologics as Beijing struggles to contain a pandemic flare-up. The vaccine, which is based on a modified human adenovirus, is given in a single dose and is recommended by the WHO for all […]
WHO seeks medical access to besieged parts of Ukraine from Russia
The head of the World Health Organization, Tantros Ananom Gebregesus, has called on Russia to ensure safe access to places in Ukraine controlled or besieged by its troops to allow people to receive health care. The WHO director general stressed that he had spoken with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about the situation in Ukraine […]