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The World Health Organization announced that it will rename the monkeypox virus, which has infected more than 1,600 people in 39 countries this year, after a group of scientists voiced concerns that the name could be stigmatizing. …
Health authorities in India are on high alert after a mysterious illness has broken out with symptoms similar to monkeypox, Express reported. The virus, known as "tomato flu" or "tomato fever", has left authorities …
The World Health Organization has received reports of 257 confirmed monkeypox cases and about 120 suspected cases in 23 nations where the virus is not endemic as of Thursday, it said in a Sunday update. In the United States, the …
Finland confirms it has found the first case of monkeypox infection in a patient, according to the Helsinki University Hospital. The patient is now recovering, the hospital says in a Twitter post on Friday. Separately, …
Every day on the respiratory ward at one of Kyrgyzstan’s biggest hospitals, Aidai Temiraly Kyzy, a 24-year-old nurse, puts on the music and leads her patients in the Kara Jorgo, the national dance of the central Asian country
Germany's health minister says the government plans to suspend a pandemic rule requiring people to show proof of vaccination, a negative test result or recent recovery from COVID-19 to enter the country over the summer. Health …
Scientists are trying to understand why the virus, a less-lethal relative of smallpox, has cropped up in so many populations around the world
COVID-19 incidence is growing in nearly 70 world nations amid the decreasing testing rates, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Sunday and called achieving a vaccination coverage of at least …
Armenia has been appointed a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) General Committee for the first time, the Ministry of Health informs. Armenia was appointed a member of the General Committee within the framework of the …
No cases of monkeypox have so far been reported in Turkey, the country’s Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Sunday. The disease is known to be endemic to parts of Africa, but a growing outbreak in several European and North …
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro reported getting a booster dose of the Russian Sputnik Light vaccine against coronavirus on Thursday. "I received a booster dose, it was Sputnik Light, on the same day with Cecilia (his …
Two more cases of monkeypox have been detected in the United Kingdom, health authorities have said. Nine cases in total have now been confirmed since 6 May, all of them in England, the UK Health Security …
North Korea on Thursday reported 262,270 more suspected COVID-19 cases as its pandemic caseload neared 2 million - a week after the country acknowledged the outbreak and scrambled to slow infections in its unvaccinated population. North …
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North Korea on Tuesday reported another large jump in illnesses believed to be COVID-19 and encouraged good health habits as a mass outbreak spreads through its unvaccinated population and military officers were deployed to distribute …
The World Health Organization warned on Monday that COVID-19 may spread rapidly in North Korea, where it said vaccination programmes had yet to begin. “With the country yet to initiate COVID-19 vaccination, there is risk that the …
Parliament took a landmark step to deter violence targeting women and health care workers and cleared a package of reforms for laws in force, including harsher prison terms and fully criminalizing stalking
Two years after getting infected with COVID-19, half of people hospitalised with the infection have at least one symptom, a follow-up study by the medical journal The Lancet reported. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine in a study said …
Americans must not "grow numb" to the sorrow of the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. President Joe Biden said Thursday, as he marked 1 million Covid-19 deaths in the United States. Biden urged the country to remain …
The North Korean authorities have confirmed the first coronavirus case in the country, the Korean Central News Agency stated in a statement released on Thursday. "A major emergency has occurred in the country, the anti-pandemic …
