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Mpox continues to be international public health emergency, says WHO chief
Mpox is a viral disease, formerly called monkeypox before the WHO changed its name in 2022 because of complaints it was racist and stigmatizing. The zoonotic disease can be transmitted to humans ...
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A more severe strain of mpox has been detected in the U.S. for the first time
The patient was traveling from East Africa, where the mpox disease is endemic. The CDC says the strain does not present a ...
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KM Biologics’ mpox vaccine approved for emergency use by WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) has listed KM Biologics' mpox vaccine for emergency use ... (FDA), which is known under the brand name Jynneos. In Europe, it is known as Imvanex, where ...
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BBC visits mpox clinic as WHO says DR Congo cases 'plateauing'
Dr Kaseya said the Africa CDC had not seen any notable changes week-on-week over the past month in the DR Congo and warned that it was too early to say the mpox outbreak was under control.
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The body’s battle with mpox
The latest strain is a mutated version of clade I, a form of mpox spread by contact with infected animals that has been endemic in Congo for decades. A mutation is a change in an organism’s ...
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A more severe strain of mpox has been detected in the U.S. for the first time
as critics said the name plays into racist stereotypes and prematurely suggests that monkeys are the main carriers of the disease. There are two types of mpox, clade I and clade II. They are ...