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Taipei (Taiwan)- China is trying to navigate its biggest coronavirus outbreak without a tool it could have adopted many months ago, the kind of vaccines that have proven to offer the best protection against the worst outcomes from COVID-19. As early as the spring of 2020, a Chinese
London (U.K.)- WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is expected to be confirmed by the U.N. health agency’s member countries for a second five-year term on Tuesday. No other candidate challenged Tedros for the post amid the ongoing difficulties of responding to the devastating coronavirus pandemic. Tedros, a former government minister from Ethiopia, has directed
Highlighting challenges in understanding and treating this rare disease An analysis of seven cases of monkeypox that occurred in the UK between 2018-2021 reports on the first instances of in-hospital transmission and household transmission outside of Africa. All patients in the study recovered following treatment in isolation in UK hospital units. Researchers observed
London (UK)- A leading adviser to the World Health Organization described the unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox in developed countries as “a random event”. Explained by risky sexual behaviour at two recent mass events in Europe. Dr David Heymann, who formerly headed WHO’s emergency department, said the leading theory. Which explains the spread of the disease was sexual
European and American health authorities have identified several monkeypox cases recently, mostly in young men. It’s a dramatic outbreak of a disease that rarely appears outside Africa. Health officials worldwide are keeping watch for more cases because, for the first time, the disease appears to be spreading among people who didn’t travel to Africa. They […]
Seoul (South Korea)- North Korea said Friday that nearly 10% of its 26 million people have become ill, and 65 people have died due to its first COVID-19 outbreak. Outside experts question the validity of the reported fatalities and fear a humanitarian crisis. After more than two years of claiming to be coronavirus-free, North Korea […]
Seoul (South Korea)- On a recent nighttime visit to a drugstore, a double-masked Kim Jong Un lamented the slow delivery of medicine. The North Korean leader’s lieutenants have quarantined hundreds of thousands of suspected COVID-19 patients and urged people with mild symptoms to take willow leaf or honeysuckle tea. Despite what the North’s propaganda describes as an […]
Seoul (South Korea)- North Korea reported 262,270 more suspected COVID-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the country’s pandemic caseload closer to 2 million, just a week after acknowledging the outbreak and scrambling to slow infections in its unvaccinated population. The country is also attempting to keep its fragile economy from deteriorating further. Still, the
Geneva (Switzerland)- The World Health Organization’s director-general stated that China’s revolutionary approach to coronavirus containment is unsustainable due to the highly infectious nature of the omicron variant, but that it is up to each country to decide what policy to pursue. After similar remarks last week drew sharp criticism from China, WHO
UKHSA identified four more cases of monkeypox London (UK)- The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has detected four additional cases of monkeypox, 3 in London and one linked case in the northeast of England. The four new cases do not have connections with the previously confirmed cases announced on 14 May, and the case announced […]
