Tag: World Health Organization (WHO)

• Monday, June 27th 2022 - 08:45 UTC

  Monkeypox not a global emergency for now, says WHO

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) has come to the conclusion following an emergency meeting that 3,200 cases and only one death due to monkeypox globally are not enough to consider the malady a global emergency, it was announced.

• Friday, June 24th 2022 - 09:21 UTC

  Colombia confirms first 3 cases of monkeypox

  

  Colombian health authorities Thursday confirmed the first three local cases of monkeypox had been detected. Two of the patients were also proved to have had a recent travel history to Europe.

• 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.

• Friday, June 10th 2022 - 09:43 UTC

  WHO scientists say key data missing to understand how the pandemic started

  

  World Health Organization (WHO) specialists said Thursday that they still lacked key data in order to reach a conclusion on how the COVID-19 pandemic started and eventually spread worldwide.

• 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.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  WHO says tobacco industry poisoning the planet, and sponsors “polluter pays principle” and banning cigarette filters

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) revealed on Tuesday new information on the extent to which tobacco damages both the environment and human health, calling for steps to make the industry more accountable for the destruction it is causing.

• 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.

• Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 08:29 UTC

  Doctor Tedros to remain WHO Director-General

  

  The Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been re-elected for a second 5-year term as Director-General of the World Health Organization, it was announced.

• 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.

• Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 07:49 UTC

  WHO working closely with (ten) countries responding to monkey-pox

  

  WHO and partners are working to better understand the extent and cause of an outbreak of monkeypox. The virus is endemic in some animal populations in a number of countries, leading to occasional outbreaks among local people and travelers. The recent outbreaks reported across 11 countries so far are atypical, as they are occurring in non-endemic countries.