This article was originally published in English European health authorities have ruled out any new EU-wide measures against the new variant of the mpox virus, as the risk it poses to the general population is still considered “low”. ADVERTISEMENT There is no need to impose border controls to avoid the risk of MPOX, or to … Read more
There is still much to learn about the outbreak of monkeypox (renamed mpox) that is spreading across Africa and has caused the WHO to declare a health emergency of international concern, its highest level of alert. A new variant raises several unknowns about its transmission and danger that will have to be resolved over time. … Read more
Madrid. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a public health emergency of international concern, its highest alert level, due to the outbreak of mpox — formerly known as monkeypox — in Africa, which originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and is caused by a new, more serious and lethal strain. The … Read more
No cases of mpox (or monkey pox) have (yet) been detected on the national territory. But this epidemic is taken very seriously with the announcement by Gabriel Attal, Friday August 16, of the “state of maximum vigilance” on the French health system. For the first time, cases have appeared outside the African continent (in Sweden … Read more
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The war between Hamas and IsraeldossierA case of polio was confirmed on Friday, August 16, in a baby in the center of the Palestinian enclave, where the war prevents vaccination and has caused a catastrophic deterioration in hygiene conditions, favoring the circulation of the virus. Polio, a disease that can leave patients, especially children, permanently … Read more
This is the first time that an infection with the lethal variant of monkeypox (MPOX) has been authenticated outside the African continent. A person living in the Stockholm region of Sweden has been diagnosed with the more contagious and dangerous clade 1 subtype of the MPOX virus, the Swedish Public Health Agency announced on Thursday. … Read more
Africa’s top public health agency declared a health emergency Tuesday over the spread of monkeypox, also known as mpox. According to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)Africa CDCfor its acronym in English), so far this year the continent has recorded 15,000 cases of mpox (an increase … Read more
Generating a greater culture of prevention that encourages vaccination (in women and men), maintaining monogamous relationships, as well as avoiding risky situations, are essential to combat cervical cancer, considered the second most prevalent in our country, says Asucena Iraís Mendoza Huerta, a professor at the UNAM Faculty of Medicine. The researcher also points out that … Read more
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom, has called for a Emergency Committee to meet “as soon as possible” to decide in the coming days whether the spread of the new variant of monkeypox (Mpox) in some African countries could become an international public health emergency. This alarm is due especially … Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasized today, August 6, 2024, that the virus COVID-19 has not gone away and, on the contrary, data from 84 countries show that Confirmed cases have increased The last weeks. He also reported that at least 40 athletes have tested positive to this infectious disease at the Paris 2024 Olympic … Read more