Tue 24 May 2022: The monkeypox disease does not spread easily between people, the EU health agency said on Monday. “Human-to-human transmission occurs through close contact with infectious material from skin lesions of an infected person, through respiratory droplets in prolonged face-to-face contact, and through fomites,” the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) […]
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Sun 22 May 2022: US President Joe Biden on Sunday said “everybody should be concerned” about monkeypox. “They (health advisers) haven’t told me the level of exposure yet, but it is something that everybody should be concerned about. “We’re working on it hard to figure out what we do and what vaccine, if any, may […]
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Sun 22 May 2022: The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for a series of measures against the further spread of monkeypox. “The identification of confirmed and suspected cases of monkeypox without any travel history to an endemic area in multiple countries is atypical, hence, there is an urgent need to raise awareness about monkeypox […]
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Sat 01 May 2022: As the virus spreads across Europe, a top European health expert has warned that cases of the rare monkeypox virus could increase in the coming months, The Guardian reporetd. “As we enter the summer season… with mass gatherings, festivals, and parties, I am concerned that transmission could accelerate,” said Hans Kluge, […]
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Sat 21 May 2022: The Iberian Peninsula is home to Europe’s two largest confirmed monkeypox outbreaks, with Spain reporting 30 cases and Portugal reporting 23 as of Friday. The largest outbreak is presently in Madrid, with 30 cases confirmed by PCR and another 15 under investigation. According to Madrid’s health minister, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, contact […]
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Fri 20 May 2022: Following North American and European countries, Australian officials verified a confirmed case of monkeypox infection on Friday (May 20). A traveller who had recently returned from the United Kingdom was found to have the disease. Authorities have indicated that another such case is being investigated. Another individual suffered a mild illness, […]
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Thu 19 May 2022: Nine additional cases of monkeypox virus infection have been discovered in Portugal, bringing the total number of cases to 14, while the first seven cases were reported in Spain on Thursday. Monkeypox is a rare viral infection that is similar to smallpox in humans but is less severe. Fever, headaches, and […]
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Wed 18 May 2022: Paxlovid, a COVID-19 oral antiviral treatment developed by Pfizer Inc, has seen a 315 percent increase in use in the last four weeks, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services. According to a senior health official, about 115,000 courses of the drugs were distributed in the first week […]
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Thu 12 May 2022: Nurses Day is a special day to honour and celebrate the contributions of nurses all over the world. The day is celebrated on Florence Nightingale’s birth anniversary on May 12 every year. The special day was chosen by the International Council of Nurses and has been observed officially since 1974. The […]
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Thu 12 May 2022: More than half of people hospitalised with COVID-19 still have at least one symptom two years after they were first infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to the longest follow-up study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal. The research followed 1,192 participants in China infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the first […]
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