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The World Health Organization has been facing hurdles in tracking known and detecting new coronavirus variants amid reduced surveillance, testing and sequencing globally, a top expert has said days after WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom…
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With the pandemic in its third year, it has been repeated multiple times by leaders and experts that the world has to learn to live with Covid. But in a warning against dropping guards, WHO chief Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus has said that this…
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Vaccines against monkeypox are not 100 per cent effective and that is why, people must reduce their own risks of infection, WHO technical lead Rosamund Lewis said on Wednesday. This comes as more than 35,000 cases of monkeypox have been…
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The World Health Organization called Wednesday for people infected with monkeypox to avoid exposing animals to the virus following a first reported case of human-to-dog transmission. A first case of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox —…
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the current strains of the monkeypox virus have a new nomenclature. The WHO stated in a statement that this is done to prevent offending anyone’s culture or social norms. The new names were…
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With a sudden spike in Monkeypox cases, there are a lot of concerns expressed about the virus’s potential for spread and transmission. The World Health Organization (WHO) has also declared Monkeypox a global health emergency due to the…
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Just as the Covid-19 pandemic across the world has taken a backseat, the scare surrounding the spread of the monkeypox virus has taken over the world. With thousands of cases being reported across several countries, the World Health…
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Scientists advising the World Health Organization (WHO) on monkeypox say the window is closing to stop its spread, with cases currently doubling every two weeks, raising concerns that it will take several months for the outbreak to peak.…
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Sunday called on South-East Asian countries to strengthen surveillance and public health measures for monkeypox as the disease had now been declared a public health emergency of international concern.…
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World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared monkeypox a global health emergency amid rising cases. So far this year, there have been more than 16,000 cases of monkeypox in more than 60 countries and five deaths in Africa. A “public health…
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