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The World Health Organization is working on further guidance for countries on how to mitigate the spread of monkeypox, amid concerns cases could spike further in the summer months, a senior adviser for the U.N. agency told Reuters. The WHO's w..
The World Health Organization was due to hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the recent outbreak of monkeypox, a viral infection more common to west and central Africa, after more than 100 cases were confirmed or suspected in Europe. In..
The disease endemic in parts of Africa has already been detected in Australia, and several European and North American nations. France, Belgium and Germany have reported their first cases of monkeypox, joining Australia, and several Euro..
Belgian health experts were due to meet on Friday after the country detected its first two cases of monkeypox, authorities said. The cases were diagnosed in different cities, though Flemish broadcaster VRTNWS said both patients had attended the sa..
The UK Health Security Agency said on Friday it had detected 11 new cases of monkeypox in England, taking the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 20. Britain had previously reported a total of nine cases of the usually mild viral ill..
Health authorities in Spain reported on Friday 23 new confirmed cases of monkeypox, mainly in the Madrid region where most infections are linked to an outbreak in an adult sauna. The total tally in Spain has now reached 30, while23 confirmed cases..
North Korea has mobilised its military to distribute COVID medications and deployed more than 10,000 health workers to help trace potential patients, as it fights a sweeping coronavirus wave, state media outlet KCNA said on Tuesday. The isolated c..
An experimental treatment from Shionogi & Co Ltd (4507.T) has shown rapid clearance of the virus that causes COVID-19, according to new data, the Japanese drug maker said on Sunday. The pill, S-217622, "demonstrated rapid cleara..
Authorities in China's financial centre of Shanghai will start easing lockdown in some areas from Monday, despite reporting a record of more than 25,000 new COVID-19 infections, as they strive to get the city moving again after more than two week..
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