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20 august 2025 - 08:29:04Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - In late January, when Goma fell to the M23 rebels, Dr. Thierno Baldé was one of [...] Full text...
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DRC: Vaccination campaign against Mpox targets 600,000 people in Kinshasa
07 march 2025 - 11:16:23Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - A new "large-scale" vaccination campaign against mpox (monkeypox) began on Thursday in the DRC capital, Kinshasa.This [...] Full text...
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Sierra Leone scales up mpox outbreak response
18 february 2025 - 11:05:55Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) ‒ Sierra Leone is deploying a range of measures to control and end an outbreak of [...] Full text...
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WHO lists additional mpox diagnostic tests for emergency use
30 october 2024 - 19:07:05Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As part of ongoing efforts to enhance quality-assured testing options, the World Health Organization (WHO) has [...] Full text...
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WHO approves first mpox diagnostic test for emergency use
05 october 2024 - 05:20:49Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Friday that it has approved the first mpox diagnostic [...] Full text...
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Ghana confirms first case of mpox
03 october 2024 - 13:27:03Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Thursday confirmed the first case of mpox in the west [...] Full text...
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UNHCR launches $21.4 million appeal to support refugees in African countries to fight mpox
11 september 2024 - 18:50:34New York, US (PANA) - The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, appealed on Wednesday for $21.4 million to urgently scale up [...] Full text...
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Mpox: Equitable vaccine access crucial for Global South
07 september 2024 - 05:27:09Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As African countries grapple with a deadly mpox outbreak, the UN independent expert on the right [...] Full text...
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Nigeria becomes first in Africa to receive mpox vaccines: WHO
29 august 2024 - 06:31:52Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) = Nigeria received 10,000 doses of mpox vaccines on Tuesday, becoming the first African country to obtain [...] Full text...
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Mpox: What you need to know about the latest public health emergency
20 august 2024 - 06:03:32Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The swift spread of a new virulent strain of the mpox virus across Africa triggered the [...] Full text...
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WHO backs African efforts to combat mpox spread
16 august 2024 - 05:14:24Brazzaville, DR Congo (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) is supporting African countries to scale up response to curb [...] Full text...
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WHO declares mpox virus public health emergency of international concern
15 august 2024 - 05:59:01Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The chief of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that the rise in mpox cases [...] Full text...
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Mpox is still being transmitted across the world, says UN health agency
14 august 2024 - 05:14:27Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Mpox has been confirmed in Burundi, one of four countries in Eastern Africa where the disease [...] Full text...
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WHO invites mpox vaccine manufacturers to submit dossiers for emergency evaluation
10 august 2024 - 12:47:54Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an invitation for manufacturers of mpox vaccines to submit [...] Full text...
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WHO on alert as mpox cases surge to unprecedented levels in Africa
08 august 2024 - 18:28:04Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday raised the response to the mpox outbreak in [...] Full text...
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WHO chief convenes expert meeting on mpox spread
08 august 2024 - 07:17:52Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) called for an emergency meeting on mpox following [...] Full text...
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South Africa notifies WHO of 20 confirmed mpox cases
09 july 2024 - 16:33:27Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - The International Health Regulations (IHR) National Focal Point (NFP) of the Republic of South Africa [...] Full text...
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Mpox public health emergency declared over
12 may 2023 - 06:14:40Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The head of the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday declared that the multi-country outbreak [...] Full text...
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2022 Year In health: New Ebola and cholera outbreaks, mpox emergency, COVID-19 ‘not over’
27 december 2022 - 06:03:09Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In 2022 the UN warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is still a cause for global concern, [...] Full text...
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Community-led responses ‘essential for ending pandemics’ – UNAIDS
16 december 2022 - 04:28:35New York, US (PANA) - Communities must be empowered and appropriately resourced to lead the fight against HIV/AIDS and other [...] Full text...
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WHO recommends new name for monkeypox
29 november 2022 - 04:57:52Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Monkeypox will now be known as mpox, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, in [...] Full text...
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WHO chief says COVID-19 virus 'still continues to change'
20 october 2022 - 05:42:04Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that [...] Full text...
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Mauritius sets up management plan to fight monkeypox disease
25 august 2022 - 09:05:39Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian Minister of Health and Wellness, Mr Kailesh Jagutpal, on Wednesday said that a management [...] Full text...
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Monkeypox cases top 35,000: WHO
18 august 2022 - 05:35:32Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Monkeypox infections continue to rise globally, with more than 35,000 cases across 92 countries and territories, [...] Full text...
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Libya works on plan to prevent monkeypox
07 august 2022 - 15:24:15Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Director-General of the National Centre for Disease Control, Haider Al-Sayeh, discussed with a number of [...] Full text...
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Monkeypox concern heightened after becoming a ‘northern’ disease, says WHO
02 august 2022 - 19:34:00Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Countries need to work more together to stop the rapidly spreading outbreak of monkeypox, “no matter [...] Full text...
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Monkeypox: WHO urges countries to share data on effectiveness
27 july 2022 - 20:28:20Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As monkeypox cases reach over 18,000 in 78 countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday, [...] Full text...
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‘We believe monkeypox outbreak can be stopped’: WHO
26 july 2022 - 20:10:30Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak can be stopped “with the right strategies in the right groups”, the [...] Full text...
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UPDATE: WHO declares monkeypox global health emergency (Eds: Adds details of presser)
23 july 2022 - 17:06:22Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Director-General of the UN World Health Organisation, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, on Saturday declared monkeypox a public [...] Full text...
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WHO declares monkeypox a global emergency
23 july 2022 - 14:41:03Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday declared monkeypox a global emergency. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General [...] Full text...
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WHO Emergency Committee meets again as Monkeypox cases pass 14,000:
21 july 2022 - 17:43:52Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) -The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday reconvened the Monkeypox Emergency Committee to assess the public health [...] Full text...
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Africa sees 63% jump in diseases spread from animals to people in last decade
14 july 2022 - 14:29:23Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Africa is facing a growing risk of outbreaks caused by zoonotic pathogens, such as the monkeypox virus [...] Full text...
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Mystery child hepatitis outbreak passes 1,000 recorded cases, says WHO
13 july 2022 - 20:30:43Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In addition to tackling COVID and the monkeypox outbreak, the UN health agency has been keeping [...] Full text...
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No cases of monkeypox in Libya - says Centre for Disease Control
13 july 2022 - 06:21:41Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan National Centre for Disease Control announced on Tuesday that no case of monkeypox has [...] Full text...
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Monkeypox cases reach 9,200, says WHO chief
13 july 2022 - 05:37:11Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says that there are currently 9,200 [...] Full text...
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WHO chief expresses concern about 'scale and spread' of monkeypox
07 july 2022 - 05:52:12Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said he is “concerned by [...] Full text...
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Monkeypox not presently a global public health emergency: WHO
26 june 2022 - 05:31:01Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The monkeypox outbreak does not currently constitute a global public health concern though “intense response efforts” [...] Full text...
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WHO says global situation of monkeypox ‘cannot be ignored’
24 june 2022 - 05:37:05Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Addressing the first meeting of the World Health Organisation’s Emergency Committee on Thursday over the global Monkeypox [...] Full text...
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Benin ready to counter possible monkeypox epidemic
18 june 2022 - 14:30:08Cotonou, Benin PANA) - Benin is on maximum alert and has taken steps to deal with a possible epidemic of [...] Full text...
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Monkeypox becomes a notifiable disease in Mauritius
11 june 2022 - 06:26:24Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian health authorities on Saturday announced that regulations have been made under the Quarantine Act to [...] Full text...
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Monkeypox becoming established in non-endemic countries, warns WHO chief
09 june 2022 - 05:17:27Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) chief said on Wednesday that monkeypox infections in non-endemic countries have passed [...] Full text...
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Ghana reports five cases of monkeypox
08 june 2022 - 12:50:49Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's health authorities said on Wednesday that five cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in the [...] Full text...
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Mauritius records three monkeypox cases
04 june 2022 - 07:10:58Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius recorded three suspected cases of Monkeypox on 1 June 2022, the Government Information Services (GIS) [...] Full text...
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Monkeypox transmission may have gone undetected ‘for some time’ - WHO chief
02 june 2022 - 06:30:03Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Thirty non-endemic countries have reported more than 550 confirmed cases of monkeypox, the head of the [...] Full text...
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Seven African countries report nearly 1,400 monkeypox cases: WHO
01 june 2022 - 06:54:34Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Seven African countries have cumulatively reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO) nearly 1,400 monkeypox cases (1,392 [...] Full text...
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Monkeypox outbreak can still be contained - WHO
24 may 2022 - 15:52:45Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The monkeypox outbreak that has been reported in 16 countries and several regions of the world [...] Full text...
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Libya has no case of monkeypox , says National Centre for Disease Control
23 may 2022 - 11:18:53Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan National Centre for Disease Control announced on Sunday that no confirmed or suspected case [...] Full text...
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Eating wild meat significantly increases zoonotic disease risk: UN report
16 september 2021 - 06:04:30New York, US (PANA) - The domestic consumption of meat from wild animals has significant impacts on most species protected under the Convention [...] Full text...
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Suspected case of Monkey pox reported in Eastern DR Congo
16 september 2012 - 14:20:42Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - A suspected case of Monkey Pox has been reported in the city of Butembo, North [...] Full text...
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