Tag: Monkeypox

• Wednesday, June 15th 2022 - 09:36 UTC

  WHO insists vaccination against monkeypox not good for everyone

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) Tuesday insisted on its recommendation not to vaccinate people against monkeypox en masse, despite the recent increase in the number of cases.

• Monday, June 13th 2022 - 20:39 UTC

  Third case of monkeypox confirmed in Brazil

  

  Brazilian health authorities Monday confirmed the third case of monkeypox nationwide had been detected. It was a 51-year-old Porto Alegre resident who had returned from Portugal last week.

• Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:34 UTC

  First case of monkeypox confirmed in Brazil

  

  A 41-year-old man from São Paulo who had just returned from Spain has been confirmed Wednesday as Brazil's first case of monkeypox. The patient is now in isolation at the Emilio Ribas Hospital in South America's largest city, which is also monitoring a 26-year-old woman, also in isolation, but with no travel record.

• Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Community transmission of monkeypox already happening, WHO says

  

  World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed his concern following new data on the spread of monkeypox allowing scientists to say community transmission of the malady is already occurring.

• Thursday, June 2nd 2022 - 22:00 UTC

  Uruguayan authorities suspect 4 cases of monkeypox

  

  Uruguay's Health Ministry (MSP) Thursday announced it was monitoring four cases suspected of being monkeypox. All of them are of people with a travel history to countries where the malady has already been detected.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  Monkeypox far from becoming a pandemic, WHO experts explain

  

  A leading World Health Organization (WHO) scientist has been reported as saying there were no concerns about the monkeypox outbreak ever evolving into a pandemic like COVID-19.

• Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:12 UTC

  Two cases of monkeypox confirmed in Argentina

  

  Argentine health authorities Friday confirmed the first two cases of monkeypox in the country. Both men had been in Spain recently but are not connected.

• Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Brazil not to isolate monkeypox patients, for now, Anvisa says

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) Tuesday made it clear that measures already in place at airports and inside airplanes were being upped to protect people from COVID-19 as well as from other diseases and pointed out it isolating patients to tackle monkeypox was not among the recommendations issued.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 10:04 UTC

  First case of monkeypox detected in Argentina?

  

  Argentina's Health Ministry of Health Sunday announced the first suspected case of monkeypox had been detected in the country and that it was being monitored closely.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Uruguay, Peru take preventive action against monkeypox

  

  Uruguayan health authorities announced during the weekend they were monitoring the possible local appearance of suspected cases of monkeypox, based on “the symptomatology and travel history” of individuals.