Health officials in the United Kingdom (UK) will report new cases of monkeypox on Monday as it intensified efforts to limit the first global outbreak of the virus. The UK has reported at least 21 confirmed cases of the monkeypox …
An experimental cancer-killing virus has been injected into a human patient for the first time, in the hopes of uncovering evidence of a new way to successfully combat cancer tumors in humans. The virus named ‘Vaxinia’ was genetically modified to …
Australia’s first case of monkeypox has been detected in Victoria while a “very likely” second case was also discovered in New South Wales. In a news release, Associate Professor Deborah Friedman, Deputy Chief Health Officer (Communicable Disease) of the Victoria …
Montreal health officials were investigating suspected instances of monkeypox as global data show a growing number of infections in other nations. Donald Vinh, a medical microbiologist at the McGill University Health Center (MUHC), in a report by the Montreal Gazette, …
Spanish authorities have started investigating several suspected monkeypox cases amid outbreaks in the UK and neighboring Portugal. Spanish health authorities said eight suspected cases of monkeypox were detected in Spain a day after the WHO raised an alert on outbreaks …
The United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced on Monday the detection of additional cases of monkeypox in London and one linked case in the northeast of England. UKHSA officials said they detected four more cases of the rare disease, …
The World Health Organization reported on Thursday that approximately 14.9 million people globally died as a direct or indirect result of COVID-19 between January 2020 and December 2021, nearly three times more than they estimated. According to the WHO analysis, …
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has limited the authorized use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine due to the rare but life-threatening risk of blood clots. The FDA announced on May 5 that the Janssen COVID-19 …
Three children in Indonesia died from a mysterious liver disease, the country’s health ministry said, bringing the global death toll to at least four. The Indonesian Health Ministry announced that the children died from “acute hepatitis” in hospitals in capital …
People in Beijing have started stocking up on food and other essentials as the city’s largest district begins mass testing of residents in the wake of a fresh coronavirus epidemic while schools have been closed. The panic buying in Beijing …
