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France monkeypox count rises to 277, one woman infected

France has detected 277 cases of monkeypox, health authorities said Tuesday, including the first case in the country of a woman contracting the virus. The case...

WHO drops endemic, non-endemic country distinction for monkeypox

The World Health Organization says it has removed the distinction between endemic and non-endemic countries in its data on monkeypox to better unify the...

WHO may declare monkeypox as global public health concern

The World Health Organization said Tuesday it would hold an emergency meeting next week to determine whether to classify the global monkeypox outbreak as...

Experts: Monkeypox hard to detect

US health experts said the cases of monkeypox that are being detected at the moment do not necessarily display the usual symptoms, making the...

Old tricks, new crises: how US misinformation spreads

"Experts say such misinformation is part of a pattern in which unscrupulous operators intentionally repurpose old narratives" With gun control under debate and monkeypox in...

WHO warns monkeypox real risk as outbreak cases hit 1k

The risk of monkeypox becoming established in non-endemic nations is real, the WHO warned, with more than a thousand cases now confirmed in such...

American with monkeypox escapes Mexican hospital

A US citizen with monkeypox escaped from a hospital in a Mexican resort and fled the country, local health authorities said Wednesday. The 48-year-old man,...

American with monkeypox flees Mexican hospital

A US citizen with monkeypox escaped from a hospital in a Mexican resort and fled the country, local health authorities said Wednesday. The 48-year-old man,...

DOH: Premature to close PH due to monkeypox

Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said Wednesday it is “premature” for the Philippines to close its borders to travelers from areas with monkeypox cases. Duque...

‘Very ignorant rumour’: Misinformation abounds about monkeypox

By Julie Charpentrat The recent emergence of hundreds of cases of monkeypox worldwide has already triggered a flood of misinformation online, much of it modelled...

780 monkeypox outbreak cases verified—WHO

Geneva—The World Health Organization said Sunday that 780 laboratory-confirmed monkeypox cases had been reported to it from 27 non-endemic countries while maintaining that the...

Monkeypox global cases over 700, with 21 in US

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it was aware of more than 700 global cases of monkeypox, including 21 in...

WHO sees no pandemic yet for monkeypox

The World Health Organization said it was not concerned for now that the spread of monkeypox beyond the African countries where it is typically...

Looming uncertainties

There are many things about which Filipinos remain uncertain. We wonder whether the “slight” increase in COVID numbers in recent days would lead to yet...
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