The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist. The U.N. health agency said in a statement Monday that mpox was its new preferred name for monkeypox, saying that both monkeypox and mpox would be used for the […]
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US now has the world’s biggest monkeypox outbreak
The story of monkeypox feels to experts frustratingly like a replay of the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Testing took too long to get launched. Data hasn’t revealed the full extent of the outbreak. The spread wasn’t stopped quickly enough. Monkeypox was supposed to be different, because it is much harder to […]
Is Monkeypox a pandemic or epidemic?
The World Health Organization (WHO) is to determine whether monkeypox is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). WHO body the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee will convene experts at the meeting. The virus, only seen in areas of central and western Africa before now, has not yet caused any deaths in newly affected […]
Should we be concerned about Monkeypox? Biden says “YES”
President Joe Biden said Sunday the new monkeypox outbreak should concern “everybody,” as it continues to baffle medical officials around the world. “Everybody should be concerned about [it],” Biden said in South Korea, while speaking with a group of reporters before he boarded Air Force One for Japan, Reuters reported. The president’s remarks come as […]
Monkeypox cases reported in US
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is collaborating with Massachusetts health officials on an investigation into a case of monkeypox, the agency said Wednesday in a statement. The case of monkeypox was confirmed in a man in Massachusetts who had recently traveled to Canada, state health officials announced earlier in the day.The patient […]