The chief of the World Health Organization says the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation that qualifies as a global emergency.
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The World Health Organization will rename the increasingly spreading monkeypox virus after concerned that the name could be discriminatory and stigmatizing.
Texas’ major cities have received thousands of monkeypox vaccine doses and expect thousands more in the coming weeks, but there is a national shortage
We still have a chance to contain the monkeypox outbreak, but experts fear the virus could become endemic in the U.S.
A Woodford County resident has tested presumptive positive for monkeypox, marking the disease's arrival in the Tri-County Area
The man, who appears to be the first in Cumberland County to get infected, has a big medical bill and has been out of work.
Poultry farms across the U.S. are scrambling to contain a new, highly contagious avian flu. The outbreak has contributed to a 47% increase in the price of eggs at grocery stores in July compared to a year ago. John Ramos has more.
Thousands of confirmed monkeypox cases have been reported across the United States. Here's what the growing outbreak looks like in each state.
The World Health Organization is holding an open forum to rename monkeypox
As the number of monkeypox cases spread across Florida, more and more school districts will have to contend with how to approach the disease as public school students, teachers and staff start their first day of school this week. So far, districts haven’t gotten much guidance from state health officials, leaving those sorts of questions […]
With the U.S. influenza season on the horizon, experts are monitoring the situation in Australia. The country's health agency says kids have been hit the hardest.
The latest coronavirus surge in Idaho may be over soon.
SouthCoast LGBTQ+ Network plans to hold a virtual symposium with local health care professionals on Aug. 24 to raise awareness about monkeypox.
Both are men who live in the Coachella Valley.
Story at a glance The Florida Department of Health has tracked 1,085 cases of the monkeypox virus across the state, reporting roughly double the cases from last week. In order to deal with rising cases, health officials are only administering the first of the two-dose vaccine regiment. Washington, D.C., has also taken this approach to…
Although rarely fatal, monkeypox can be extremely painful and scarring.
There are early signs that the spread of monkeypox infections are starting to slow down in Canada, but it was "too soon to tell" whether cases had plateaued, chief public health officer Theresa Tam said on Friday. "The cases are not increasing at the speed at which they were increasing at the beginning of the outbreak and so we will just keep monitoring that trend in the next number of weeks," Tam told reporters at a briefing. Monkeypox spreads via close contact and tends to cause flu-like symptoms and pus-filled skin lesions; people generally recover from it within two to four weeks, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Biden administration has declared monkeypox a public health emergency. Here's what to know about vaccination in Indiana.
