Written by In crowded Kinshasa, two strains of mpox are sweeping through a community that relies on selling sex. Hundreds of thousands of vaccines sent to the country have not been used. Source link
A school in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia was closed as a precaution on Monday after two children were found to be infected with the mpox virus. The mpox clade 1b variant was found to be present in four members of a local family. There have been placed in quarantine. The two children […]
For Reuters, Arathy J Aluckal, Jitesh Chowdhury, and Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa illustrate how the mpox virus spreads, its variants, and who it affects. The last chart in the article, shown above, struck me as familiar but took me a second. It’s a pyramid chart that puts women on the left and men on the right. […]
US health officials confirmed a case of the clade I mpox in California on Saturday. This is the first case of the strain in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the person had recently traveled from eastern Africa. The individual was treated at a medical facility in northern California […]
O Ministério da Saúde e a Anvisa (Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária) lançaram uma campanha sobre a Mpox nos principais aeroportos e portos brasileiros. Quem circular por esses locais encontrará painéis com informações sobre os sintomas da doença e orientações sobre o que fazer caso apresente algum deles. O objetivo é alertar os viajantes e […]
The Akwa Ibom State government, through its National Orientation Agency (NOA), has intensified public health education efforts after tracing six Mpox cases to a single household in the Onna Local Government Area (LGA). The Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Health confirmed eight Mpox cases across the… saharareporters.com Source link