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Fear of social stigma preventing Asians from monkeypox testing
Hong Kong/New Delhi: Monkeypox, which has afflicted more than 30,000 people to date, is not a ‘gay’ disease and in Asia where gay sex is outlawed in several countries, the fear of stigmatization…
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Overlapping crises accelerating health inequality: WHO
Montreal: World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that overlapping crises of Covid-19, inflation and cuts to foreign aid by wealthy countries are accelerating health inequality and disrupting health services.…
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Monkeypox: No need to panic
Satyen Mohapatra All countries must put their house in order with the monkeypox becoming a multi country outbreak and World Health Organization declaring monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. “There is…
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Monkeypox hits Europe, Americas hardest: WHO
Geneva: Europe and the Americas have been affected the most by the monkeypox outbreak, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists here on Wednesday. These two…
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Over 14,000 kids drown in Bangladesh every year: WHO, Unicef
Dhaka: Drowning has become the second leading cause of death among children under the age of five in Bangladesh and the country reports over 14,000 such fatalities every year, the World Health…
- Middle East
Saudi Arabia records two new cases of monkeypox virus
Riyadh: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health on Monday announced that it had detected two new cases of monkeypox in the country, which has recently spread in several countries in…
- India
World witnessing unexpected emergence of Monkeypox: WHO’s Dr Poonam
New Delhi: Dr Poonam Khetrapal, Regional Director of the World Health Organization South-East Asia Region on Monday said that the world is witnessing an unexpected emergence of Monkeypox. When asked about the…
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Monkeypox: WHO declares it global health emergency here’s what that means
Norwich: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the current monkeypox epidemic a global health emergency. The committee of independent advisers who met on Thursday July 21 2022, were split on their…
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Delhi man tests positive for monkeypox
New Delhi: A 34-year-old man from the national capital with no history of foreign travel has tested positive for monkeypox virus, official sources said on Sunday. This is the fourth case of…
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Europe heatwave calls for action to combat climate change: WHO
Copenhagen: As Europe reels from the effects of a prolonged heatwave responsible for a series of ferocious wildfires and escalating record-breaking high temperatures, regional governments have been urged by the World Health Organization…
- Middle East
Third in Gulf, Qatar reports first case of monkeypox
Doha: The Qatari Ministry of Public Health on Friday announced the registration of the first confirmed case of monkeypox in the country, becoming the third Gulf country to report the disease after…
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COVID pandemic is nowhere near over: WHO chief
Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday warned the world that fresh waves of COVID-19 cases show that the pandemic is “nowhere near over.” In a media…
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COVID cases on rise in 110 countries, driven by 2 Omicron sub-variants: WHO
United Nations: The COVID-19 pandemic is changing but it is not over, head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, cautioning that the cases are on the rise in 110 countries…
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Monkeypox an evolving threat, not a global health emergency: WHO
New Delhi: Monkeypox virus which has been identified in more than 50 countries with over 3,000 cases since the early May, is an “evolving threat” but does not currently present a global…
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World Health Network declares monkeypox outbreak a pandemic
Washington: The current monkeypox outbreak, which has infected 3,417 people across 42 countries, has on Thursday been declared a pandemic by World Health Network (WHN), a global collaboration of scientific and citizen…
