What is Mpox? Symptoms, transmission and available vaccines
The pathogen enters the body through broken skin, the respiratory tract or the mucous membranes in the eyes, nose, mouth, rectum and anus. The main...
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New monkeypox strain reaches Europe as Sweden reports first case
Sweden has registered Europe’s first case of the more dangerous variant of mpox which is spreading rapidly in Africa, after the WHO declared a global...
WHO declares ‘public health emergency’ over new clade of M-Pox
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared an international public health emergency to combat a new fast spreading outbreak of mpox sweeping East and Central...
WHO updates pandemic watchlist to include black death and bird flu
But while pre-pandemic lists focused on a narrow set of around a dozen priority diseases, the latest blueprint includes well over 30. It also creates...