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Monkeypox To Be Renamed As Mpox: WHO

When the outbreak of monkeypox expanded earlier this year, racist and stigmatizing language online, in other settings and in some communities was observed and reported to WHO

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USFDA Approves Roche's Monkeypox Test

The tests will be conducted on the Swiss company's cobas systems, which can also detect HIV, hepatitis B and C viruses. The Food and Drug Administration said testing will be limited to laboratories that meet the requirements to perform moderate or high complexity tests

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For People With HIV, Weak Immune Systems, Monkeypox Virus Can Be Fatal Says US Study

More than 90 countries where monkeypox is not endemic have reported outbreaks of the viral disease, which the World Health Organization has declared a global health emergency. Confirmed cases have reached 76,757

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Avoid Touching Foreigners To Reduce Monkeypox Risk Says China's Health Official

"To prevent possible monkeypox infection and as part of our healthy lifestyle, it is recommended that you do not have direct skin-to-skin contact with foreigners," Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention posted on his official Weibo page on Saturday

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Delhi Logs 8th Monkeypox Case, Nigerian Woman Tests Positive Taking India's Tally To 13

The country now has 13 cases of the viral disease in total, and the woman has been admitted to LNJP Hospital, the sources said

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US Monkeypox Cases May Be Peaking: Experts

Nevertheless, some U.S. experts believe cases are starting to decline based largely on immunity from prior infection and behavior changes as awareness of the disease has grown. That does not mean the disease will be contained, they cautioned

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US To Boost Up Monkeypox Vaccine Supply By 1.8 Mn Doses

On Thursday, the White House said that the United States will boost its supply of monkeypox vaccine by making an additional 1.8 million doses of Bavarian Nordic's Jynneos vaccine available.

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Delhi Reports 5th Monkeypox Case, Patient Returned From Nigeria

Four persons, including two women, are admitted to the LNJP Hospital with monkeypox while one patient was discharged from the facility

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Monkeypox Can Become Endemic; Here's How It Can Be Stopped In Its Tracks

Since May of this year, more than 26,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported worldwide – prompting the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare it a public health emergency

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Govt Convenes Meeting Of Experts On Monkeypox

According to existing 'Guidelines on Management of Monkeypox Disease' issued by the Centre, any person having a history of travel to affected countries within the last 21 days presenting with an unexplained acute rash and symptoms like swollen lymph nodes, fever, headaches, body aches and profound weakness is to be considered to be a 'suspected case'

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Monkeypox Can Be Transmitted Through Secretions Produced By Coughing Or Sneezing: Dr. Sheela Murali Chakravarthy, Fortis Hospital

In an exclusive interview with BW Businessworld, Dr Sheela Murali Chakravarthy, Director- Internal Medicine, Fortis Hospital, Karnataka talks about the Monkeypox outbreak and how we can protect ourselves

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Suspected Monkeypox Case In Noida

The travel history of the patient was yet to be confirmed. Monkeypox is a viral zoonosis (a virus transmitted to humans from animals) with symptoms similar to those seen in the past in smallpox patients, although it is clinically less severe

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Monkeypox-infected Delhi Man Stable Now, Had Painful Lesions: Sources

The person has no history of foreign travel, but he did travel domestically. However, the source from where he may have contracted the infection is not immediately known, they said, adding, there is no need to panic

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Monkeypox Less Contagious, Rarely Fatal, No Need To Panic: Experts

The virus spread can be contained by isolation of confirmed cases and quarantine of contacts, they said, and underlined that immunocompromised individuals need to take care. Senior scientist at Pune's National Institute of Virology (NIV) Dr Pragya Yadav said Monkeypox virus is an enveloped double-stranded DNA virus having two distinct genetic clades the central African (Congo Basin) clade and the west African clade

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