Tag: Smallpox
Finland is still waiting for the monkeypox vaccine
The monkeypox vaccine is still not available in Finland. Anniina VirkkuA medical expert from the Institute of Health and Welfare (THL) told Yle that the vaccines have not yet arrived. A few weeks ago, THL announced that the portions would arrive by the end of July. About 1,000 doses of the vaccine are expected to […]
Health Authority finally makes Monkeypox vaccine available to LGBT community
Extended risk groupThe news comes on the same day as Statens Serum Institut (SSI) extended the risk group for the disease over fears that a large number of monkeypox cases are going unreported. So far, 123 cases have been reported in Denmark, but SSI believes that the actual number of infections is “significantly higher”. “We […]
"We believe that the monkeypox epidemic can be stopped": WHO
However, he added that time was running out and everyone must work together to fight the disease. On Saturday, the Director General of the WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the spread of the virus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), which is the organization’s highest alert level. “With this, we hope to enhance […]
Danish company supplies the United States with monkey pox vaccine
Following a contract signed by the US government, the Danish company Bavarian Nordic is to supply the USA with a total of 4.4 million monkey pox vaccines. This figure represents the composition of several orders placed by the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority – the most recent being 2.5 million liquid-frozen doses. Favorable […]
The first case of monkey pox in Finland
Finland’s largest hospital district, HUS, announced on Friday that it had confirmed the country’s first case of monkeypox late Thursday. Lasse LehtonenAccording to HUS’s Director of Diagnostics, the case was so far the only case suspected in Finland. Currently, a patient recovering at home has blisters and a high fever, but otherwise he is well, […]
Fresh cases of rare monkey pox located
Cases of the “very unusual” disease have been confirmed in Italy and Sweden The United States and European countries such as Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Italy and Sweden confirmed cases of smallpox, a rare African disease, on Thursday. Doctors at Spallanzani Hospital in Rome said they had diagnosed a person with smallpox after returning […]
The United States buys millions of vaccines for dangerous viruses
Officials have rushed to secure vaccines as cases of the rare appox virus continue to appear in the United States and Europe The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has signed an agreement for $ 119 million in vaccines against the appox virus, after a Massachusetts man was diagnosed with the rare but potentially […]
First case of monkey smallpox registered in Denmark
Cases are popping up all over EuropeMonkey pox has been recorded in Africa for many years and only rarely appears in Europe. But as of yesterday, there were 59 confirmed cases across a number of EU countries. Symptoms of monkey pox can include fever, chills and blisters with blisters that can cause sores when they […]
Belgium is the first country to introduce compulsory monkey quarantine
Monkey pox is a disease of the same genus as smallpox and symptoms include a clear bumpy rash, fever, muscle aches and headache. Monkey pox is less deadly than smallpox, with a mortality rate of less than 4 percent, but experts are concerned about the unusual spread of the disease outside Africa, where it usually […]
Israel reports the first case of monkey pox
Rare virus diagnosed in men returning from Western Europe’s hotspot An Israeli man in his 30s has been admitted to a hospital in Tel Aviv with the country’s first suspected case of appox virus. He had visited Western Europe, where dozens of cases of the rare disease have recently been diagnosed. The Israeli Ministry of […]
WHO issues a forecast for the spread of monkey pox
The spread of the rare virus could “accelerate” in the summer, warns the UN health agency’s highest official in Europe Europe should expect a wave of cases of monkey pox in the coming months, according to Hans Kluge, the World Health Organization’s top official on the continent. “As we enter the summer season … with […]
The WHO is convening an emergency meeting on the plague epidemic
as well as the status of vaccines, the Sputnik news agency reported on The Telegraph on Friday. Since the beginning of May, cases of monkeypox have been reported in several countries around the world, including the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Australia and Canada. On 7 May, a case of smallpox was confirmed in England […]
African researchers puzzled over cases of smallpox in Europe, USA
London – Researchers who have monitored many outbreaks of smallpox in Africa say they are puzzled by the spread of the disease in Europe and North America. Cases of smallpox-related disease have previously only been seen among people with connections to central and western Africa. But in the past week, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, […]
The WHO convenes an emergency meeting on the media for outbreaks of rare diseases
The international health watchdog calls in experts to discuss the rapid spread of monkey pox, reports the Telegraph The latest spread of the appox virus has prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to convene a crisis meeting, the British newspaper Telegraph reported on Friday. The disease, which is usually confined to forest areas in western […]
Smallpox – we know that about the infection
Monkey pox was discovered in monkeys in 1958, and the first time it was discovered that the virus infected a human was in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. About monkey pox Monkey pox is related to the eradicated disease smallpox, but is less dangerous. – It is important to realize that what we […]
The United States buys millions of vaccine doses for new viruses
Officials have rushed to secure vaccines as cases of the rare appox virus continue to appear in the United States and Europe The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has signed an agreement for $ 119 million in vaccines against the appox virus, after a Massachusetts man was diagnosed with the rare but potentially […]
Section 1: The fear of smallpox forced the first vaccine
Host: Karin Arbsjö, Farshid Jalalvand. Producer: Morris Wikström.
