Tag: (Monkeypox)
Dangerous monkeypox spreads in Congo: “Everyone should prepare”
It’s time to prepare. That’s the call scientists mapping a new variant of monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of Congo have made to their neighboring countries. The new variant is…
Outbreak of monkeypox in Stockholm
An unusually high number of cases of the disease have been reported during April. It is about ten cases of illness where all have been infected in Sweden. Why the…
Monkeypox: WHO lifts maximum alert
After Covid-19, monkeypox. The WHO lifted its highest level of alert for the mpox epidemic on Thursday, May 11, deeming it sufficiently under control almost a year after the start…
AIDS patients threatened by a severe form of monkeypox
News Published on 02/23/2023 at 1:19 p.m. Updated 02/23/2023 at 1:19 p.m. Reading 1 min. A particularly serious form of monkeypox, also called “mpox”, has been identified in patients infected…
Monkeypox also becomes mpox in Sweden
Published: Less than 10 min ago full screen Apkoppor becomes mpox in Sweden as well. Archive image. Photo: Anders Humlebo/TT The disease monkeypox recently received a new English name –…
Monkeypox also becomes mpox in Sweden
To avoid stigma, the World Health Organization (WHO) chose last month to rename monkeypox to mpox. The spread of the disease was greatest in western and central Africa and the…
Monkeypox, what evolution for the virus? Short, medium and long term scenarios
Can we hope to end the monkeypox epidemic? For several weeks, this disease, close to smallpox and which causes in particular fevers and rashes, has been decreasing sharply in France…
Smallpox of the sign (or monkeypox) changes name
News Published on 11/29/2022 at 12:53 p.m. Updated 11/29/2022 at 12:53 p.m. Reading 2 mins. In international scientific language, monkey pox, or “monkeypox”, will henceforth be called “mpox”. A necessary…
“We must not cry victory too soon”: the monkeypox epidemic is receding but…
The encouraging signs are definitely there. The monkeypox epidemic continues to slow around the world, although new cases are appearing in some countries hitherto spared, such as Egypt and Ukraine.…
First case of monkeypox in China! Quarantined
The first case of monkeypox in mainland China was detected in the city of Chongqing in the south of the country. In the statement made by the Chongqing Health Commission,…