Category: Monkeypox
How Does Mpox Spread, and Who Is Most at Risk?
NYT This month, the World Health Organization declared mpox a global health emergency. The virus, formerly known as monkeypox, is spreading quickly in parts of Africa, particularly the Democratic Republic of Congo. The outbreak there has been fueled by a new version of the virus that has also been discovered in Sweden and Thailand. The fast-evolving situation has led to anxiety and […]
Sep 3, 2024
Children Dying of Mpox Are Not First in Line for a Vaccine
Bloomberg Children account for over 80% of fatal mpox cases in Congo, Bavarian Nordic shot is missing from pediatric vaccine plan. Children account for over 80% of mpox deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, yet the first shots to arrive in the country won’t be given to the youngest and most vulnerable patients. A new […]
Aug 28, 2024
Africa has almost 4,000 new mpox cases in a week, but the wait for vaccines continues
AP Africa is seeing a rapid increase in mpox cases with nearly 4,000 reported in the past week, the continent’s public health body said Tuesday as it repeated a plea for long-awaited vaccines whose arrival this week in the most affected country, Congo, has been delayed. Eighty-one deaths from mpox were reported in Africa in the past […]
Aug 28, 2024
Promising Mpox Drug Fails in Trials as Virus Spreads
Wired AS MPOX CONTINUES to spread in Central Africa, a promising antiviral drug to treat the infection has failed to improve patients’ symptoms in a trial in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the epicenter of the outbreak. In the trial, the drug tecovirimat, also known as TPOXX, did not alleviate the characteristic blisterlike rash seen in […]
Aug 28, 2024
Confused about the mpox outbreaks? Here’s what’s spreading, where, and why
Science The decision by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization to declare back-to-back public health emergencies over the spread of mpox last week have rekindled global interest in the disease. But the facts have been confusing. Is the mpox virus spreading rapidly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighboring […]
Aug 27, 2024
Germany to donate 100,000 mpox vaccine doses to combat outbreak in Africa
Reuters Germany will donate 100,000 mpox vaccine doses from its military stocks to help contain the outbreak on the African continent in the short term as well as provide help to the affected countries, said a government spokesperson on Monday. The government will provide the World Health Organization with flexible financial resources via various instruments […]
Aug 27, 2024
WHO launches plan to stanch mpox transmission and says the virus can be stopped
Abc News The U.N. health agency has launched a six-month plan to help stanch outbreaks of mpox transmission. The U.N. health agency on Monday launched a six-month plan to help stanch outbreaks of mpox transmission, including ramping up staffing in affected countries and boosting surveillance, prevention and response strategies. The World Health Organization said it […]
Aug 27, 2024
Argentina quarantines grains ship over suspected mpox case
Reuters Argentine authorities have quarantined a cargo ship in the Parana River over a suspected case of mpox onboard, the government said on Tuesday, as global public health authorities remain on alert for a new faster-spreading variant of the virus. The quarantined Liberian-flagged ship was sailing from Santos, Brazil – also a major commodities hub […]
Aug 21, 2024
Thailand says mpox case recorded in traveller from Africa
Reuters Thailand has detected an mpox case in a European man who arrived from Africa last week and is awaiting test results to determine the strain, a disease control official said on Wednesday. Thai authorities were treating the case as if it were the Clade 1 form of mpox, as the person, a 66-year-old European […]
Aug 21, 2024
How the World Sleepwalked Into the Global Mpox Emergency
Bloomberg A mutated form of mpox has been circulating in the Democratic Republic of Congo for months. Now the response to what has become a global health emergency faces a key obstacle: The country still doesn’t have a single vaccine. The absence of shots and challenges in understanding the spread of the disease in the […]
Aug 20, 2024