Tag: monkeypox
Monkeypox: WHO lifts its maximum alert level
Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credit: BENJAMIN POLGE / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 5:51 p.m., May 11, 2023 The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday lifted…
Monkeypox is renamed mpox: why this choice by the WHO?
Monkeypox is now called mpox, after several consultations with the World Health Organization to change the original term – which posed several problems. The monkeypox epidemic has been under close…
International tail light – Switzerland is on the brakes on monkeypox vaccination – News
contents Vaccination against monkeypox has been available in the EU and the USA since the summer, but it is still not possible in Switzerland. Where is the problem? The current…
1 million views in 30 hours: on TikTok, fake news about monkeypox is viral
We know that fake news tends to go viral quickly. A new study from researchers at the University of Alberta shows the speed of this spread for TikTok videos containing…
US data shows effectiveness of monkeypox vaccine
The vaccine against monkeypox is very effective, and this as early as two weeks after the first dose, according to first data in real conditions communicated on Wednesday by the…
TESTIMONY. “I suddenly saw appear…”, he tells how he caught monkeypox
Fear and amazement… Sébastien did not expect to catch this new disease, which arrived after two years of the Covid pandemic. But he lived through three very painful weeks. When…
In Paris, associations are mobilizing to protect sex workers from monkeypox
Preparation of a dose of vaccine against monkey pox, at the Edison center, in Paris, on July 27. CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON/EPA-EFE On the ground floor of the Edison Health Center,…
Over 50,000 monkeypox cases recorded worldwide, WHO says
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on December 20, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland. SALVATORE DI NOLFI / AP More than 50,000 cases of monkeypox have been recorded worldwide since the start of the…
“From a scientific point of view, there is no need to rename the monkeypox virus”
Lhe name of the monkey pox virus should be changed, because it is considered “stigmatizing” by the municipality of New York, which asked the World Health Organization to think about…
No risk for children – A case of monkeypox in a daycare center in Bern – News
A case of monkeypox has occurred in the staff of a day-care center (Kita) in the canton of Bern. Because the risk of infection is estimated to be extremely low,…
“Dynamic situation”: There is a risk of a shortage of the monkeypox vaccine
“dynamic situation” There is a shortage of the monkeypox vaccine 08/17/2022, 6:47 p.m The world’s only manufacturer of the monkeypox vaccine doubts whether it can meet the high demand. Mass…
Monkeypox: “We must do everything to slow down the phenomenon”, says Antoine Flahault
INTERVIEW Since this week, five French pharmacies, in Hauts-de-France, Île-de-France and Paca, have been experimenting with vaccination against monkey pox. The virus, which appeared in the country three months ago,…