“We must act now, and we must act together,” international health officials said Saturday as cases topped 16,000 globally and the death toll reached five. Read...
Recent data suggest that the DNA of monkeypox can also be detected in a variety of bodily fluids from those infected. That includes respiratory and nasal...
The World Health Organization’s monkeypox emergency committee will “revisit its position shortly” due to the “rapid evolution and emergency nature” of the global outbreak, the organization...
Millions of additional doses are on their way and will arrive in coming weeks and months, officials said. Read More
Both the World Health Organization director-general and an emergency committee convened Thursday agree that monkeypox isn’t a international public health emergency “at present,” the organization said...
That job is being made harder by false, often homophobic theories that are spreading on all major social media platforms, according to research carried out for...
Vaccines are already being sent to those at high risk for exposure, such as healthcare workers. Read More
Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI has been fined more than $10 million by the UK’s data protection watchdog for collecting the faces of UK citizens...
A Danish company is ramping up smallpox vaccine production to combat monkeypox, the disease currently spreading across Europe and North America. Read More
The growing monkeypox outbreak is “something everyone should be concerned about,” President Joe Biden said. Read More