Tag: Epidemic
Mpox: how could this new epidemic in Africa affect France?
News Published on 06/09/2024 at 11:21 updated on 06/09/2024 at 11:21 Reading 2 min. Following the World Health Organization’s alert regarding the MPOX epidemic, the French Society of Dermatology is…
WHO calls for calm as epidemic spreads – L’Express
This is the fear that has been growing for several weeks: could Mpox eventually cause a global pandemic such as the one we experienced with Covid-19? A concern that the…
DRC: the MPOX epidemic continues to progress in the Goma region in the east of the country
In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the MPOX epidemic declared by WHO as a public health emergency of international concern continues to gain ground. In Goma and surrounding areas, at…
Mpox epidemic: “State of maximum vigilance” according to Gabriel Attal
News Published on 08/16/2024 at 3:45 p.m. updated on 08/16/2024 at 3:45 p.m. Reading 3 min. in collaboration with Dr Gérald Kierzek (Medical Director of Doctissimo) As health authorities closely…
The European Union is also sounding the alarm over the spread of the mpox epidemic
Concern and questions continue to mount around the world about the mpox epidemic after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared its highest international alert level on 14 August, due to…
Mpox virus: what we know about this epidemic that is accelerating in Africa
As the World Health Organization triggered its highest level of global alert on Wednesday, August 14, in the face of the spread of MPOX, also known as monkeypox, RFI takes…
Towards a global epidemic? Why there is concern
Monkeypox is making a worrying comeback. WHO may downgrade it as a public health emergency of international concern. Fever, rash, swollen lymph nodes and the risk of death: these are…
Ministry of Health: A polio epidemic has broken out in Gaza | News in brief
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that it will send more than one million poliovirus doses to Gaza. According to the UN, other motion sicknesses have also spread…
10 years after the epidemic: Can Ebola strike again?
▸ It has now been 10 years since the first reports of people dying from an unknown disease in Guinea began to appear. It was Ebola: one of the world’s…
British police: Violence against women and girls has grown into an “epidemic” | News in brief
In 2022-2023, British police will register more than one million violent crimes against women and girls. Violence against women and girls has grown to “epidemic levels” in Britain, the country’s…