A World Health Organisation official stated that mpox, whether a new or old strain, is not a new form of COVID because authorities understand how to stop its spread. "We can and must tackle mpox together," said Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe, during a
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared Mpox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 14 August 2024 following an upsurge of infection by the virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a growing number of African countries. This is the highest level
UN News - The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the rise in mpox cases constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), following advice from members at Wednesday’s International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee meeting. A PHEIC is the highest level of
Following allegations of racist and stigmatizing language around the disease's name, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that monkeypox would henceforth be called mpox. A series of meetings with global specialists led to the decision. Both terms will be used concurrently for one year until the monkeypox
Jamaica's Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Christopher Tufton, said that 4,000 doses of vaccines for Monkeypox are expected to arrive this month. While speaking at the Open House & Exhibition ceremony in St Catherine, Tufton said that the distribution of these vaccines would take a
UN News - As Monkeypox cases reached over 18,000 in 78 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended targeted vaccination for those exposed to someone infected and those at high risk of exposure, including health workers, laboratory workers and people with multiple sexual partners. “At this
UN News - The rapidly spreading Monkeypox outbreak can be stopped, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, “with the right strategies in the right groups”. But “time is going by and we all need to pull together to make that happen”, warned Dr Rosamund Lewis, WHO Technical Lead
Jamaica strengthens its response and prevention of Monkeypox as the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the global outbreak of the virus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). On July 6, 2022, a man from the United Kingdom was the first person on the island
Media Release - “We need to guard against having emerging communicable diseases, like monkeypox established in the Caribbean. Monkeypox is not a disease like COVID-19. It is not airborne and demands close prolonged contact with an infected person. The way this particular monkeypox outbreak presents
In a virtual press briefing on Saturday, July 23, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared monkeypox a global health emergency. UN News - Monkeypox is an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly, through new modes of transmission about which we understand "too little", and which meets
