Mpox has symptoms similar to smallpox, although less severe, according to WHO. (File) New Delhi: The World Health Organization (WHO) said today that droplets were a “minor” route of transmission for mpox compared to physical contact, adding that more research is required to understand how the virus spreads. The UN health agency declared mpox a … Read more
An expert has revealed what Brits need to look out for before getting concerned about the outbreak of Mpox in Africa. In recent weeks, there has been growing speculation and nervousness over the spread of a strain of the virus. With the Covid-19 pandemic still in very recent memory, there has been concern that the … Read more
Health officials in Thailand have confirmed a case of the version of mpox that led the World Health Organization to declare a global health emergency. The second instance of this deadlier version being reported outside Africa follows its recent detection in Sweden. Concerns about the virus’s wider spread are rising, particularly since this new version, … Read more
The type of mpox spreading rapidly through several African countries could arrive in Canada, where that strain hasn’t appeared before, Canadian experts say. The detection of clade I mpox in Sweden in someone who had travelled to an affected African country is a “harbinger” of broader spread, said Dr. Fahad Razak, an internal medicine specialist … Read more
As the number of mpox cases escalates in Africa and creeps upward in other countries like Canada, the World Health Organization (WHO), on Wednesday, again declared the virus a global public health emergency. The declaration comes more than two years after the WHO first declared a global mpox emergency in 2022, which subsequently subsided in … Read more
Africa’s top public health body declared what it termed a “public health emergency of continental security” on Tuesday over an outbreak of mpox that has spread from the Democratic Republic of Congo to neighboring countries. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) had warned last week of an alarming rate of spread of the … Read more
