Thailand confirms Clade 1b mpox case, second outside Africa
Thailand on Thursday confirmed an mpox case reported this week was the clade 1b strain of the virus, the second confirmed case of the variant outside Africa. The case is …
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Skip the Dishes, parent company laying off hundreds of employees in Canada
About 800 Canadian employees are being laid off by Skip the Dishes and its parent company. The workforce reduction will affect approximately 100 Canada-based workerswith Skip the Dishes, the food delivery service’s …
Mpox not new COVID – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has clarified that Mpox is not a new Coronavirus strain and should not be regarded as such. On Tuesday, Hans Kluge, WHO’s Regional Director for …
Mpox vaccination program sees brisk uptake in Ottawa
Public health officials in Ottawa are ramping up a vaccination program to limit the spread of the mpox virus, and there are signs that early uptake has been brisk. After …
Joly announces $1M to help stem mpox in Africa as Liberals craft continental plan
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canada will provide $1 million to help stem the spread of mpox in Africa as her government assembles a long-delayed plan for how to …
Paris organizers aim to emulate success of London 2012 as ‘normalcy’ returns to Paralympics
It’s been more than a decade since the last Summer Paralympics went off without major controversy. In 2016, Zika Virus concerns were compounded when, two weeks before the Games, the …
Mpox surge in DR Congo: hospital overwhelmed with patients as virus vaccine demand rises
Doctor Tresor Basubi inspected the breathing and heartbeat of a calm little girl whose body was covered in skin lesions caused by the disease, which has killed 548 people in …
WHO confirms first case of new mpox outside of Africa as outbreak spreads
Dr Brian Ferguson of the University of Cambridge said the case in a Swedish traveller was concerning but not surprising, given the severity and spread of the outbreak in Africa. …
Israel-Gaza war: aid groups aim to avert a polio outbreak with vaccination surge
“We are anticipating and preparing for the worst-case scenario of a polio outbreak in the coming weeks or month,” Francis Hughes, the Gaza Response Director at CARE International, told reporters. …
Nigerian govt tightens surveillance, border control over Mpox outbreak
The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Ali Pate, has said Nigeria has tightened its border surveillance in response to growing threats of mpox, a viral disease caused …