Spain reported on Friday its first monkeypox-related death, the Spanish Health Ministry said, in what is Europe’s first known death and the second outside of Africa in the current outbreak.…
There have been more than 18,000 cases of monkeypox reported globally from 78 countries, with the majority in Europe, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. The WHO declared the…
Scientists advising the World Health Organization (WHO) on monkeypox say the window is closing to stop its spread, with cases currently doubling every two weeks, raising concerns that it will…
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organisation The rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak represents a global health emergency, the World Health Organisation’s highest level of alert, WHO Director-General…
A file photo of a signpost with WHO emblem. Monkeypox experts were discussing Thursday whether the World Health Organization should classify the outbreak as a global health emergency — the…
Margus outbreaks are often associated with exposure to colonies of Rousettus bats (Photo: YASSER AL-ZAYYAT AFP) The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) says it is on a…
Detection in the Chinese city of Wuhan of a bacteria that caused cholera in a student and was separately found in samples from softshell turtles at a food market has…
A health worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) stands at a Covid-19 coronavirus testing site outside a shopping mall in Beijing on May 5, 2022. Jade GAO / AFP Fresh…
Photo: CNA European Union health agencies on Monday recommended a second COVID-19 booster for everyone over 60, as well as medically vulnerable people, amid a new rise in infections and…
Drugmaker Merck & Co (MRK.N) is in advanced talks to buy cancer-focused biotech company Seagen Inc (SGEN.O) in a deal that could be worth roughly $40 billion or more, the…
