Tag: monkeypox

Doctors to Be Required by Law to Alert Health Authorities of Monkeypox Cases: UKHSA

Monkeypox has been made a notifiable disease in England, effective from Wednesday, meaning doctors and laboratories will be legally required to alert authorities if they identify a suspected case. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said on Tuesday that doctors will have to notify their local council or local health protection team if they suspect someone has…


CDC Raises Monkeypox Alert, Recommends Masks During Travel, Then Removes Advice

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday raised its alert level for monkeypox to level 2 and recommended that people wear masks when traveling, before appearing to make a U-turn on the advice. In an update, the government agency raised the alert level to 2, encouraging people to practice enhanced precaution measures…


First BC Monkeypox Case Is Confirmed in Vancouver Resident

The BC Centre for Disease Control has announced the first case of monkeypox in British Columbia, bringing the national total to almost 80 cases. The centre says its laboratory has confirmed the infection in a resident of Vancouver, but it is awaiting further confirmation by the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. It says in a…


CDC Initiates Emergency Response: Current Monkeypox Cases Suggest Community Transmission

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it will be initiating an emergency response to monitor and investigate monkeypox after recent cases suggest that the disease may be spreading through person-to-person community transmission. “Identification of monkeypox clusters in several countries that do not have endemic disease and involving patients with no direct travel…


CDC: Current Monkeypox Cases Suggest Community Transmission

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it will be initiating an emergency response to monitor and investigate monkeypox after recent cases suggest that the disease may be spreading through person-to-person community transmission. “Identification of monkeypox clusters in several countries that do not have endemic disease and involving patients with no direct travel…


Growing Number of Monkeypox Cases Reported Across the US: CDC

The number of monkeypox cases in the United States has risen to 21 as of Friday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The agency’s data show that there are four cases in New York, four in California, three in Florida, two in Colorado, two in Utah, and one each in Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts,…


Philadelphia Announces First Probable Case of Monkeypox in Pennsylvania

A probable monkeypox case has been identified in Philadelphia, the first such case in Pennsylvania. The city’s health department announced the case based on preliminary testing at the Pennsylvania Department of Health’s Bureau of Laboratories where the person tested positive for orthopoxvirus, the family of viruses that includes monkeypox and smallpox. A test to confirm whether the…


LA County Announces First Presumed Case of Monkeypox

LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles County health officials said Thursday they have confirmed the county’s first presumptive case of monkeypox, but they are awaiting final confirmation of the case by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “The patient is an adult resident who recently traveled and had a known close contact to a case,”…


Quebec Health Authorities Say 52 Monkeypox Cases Confirmed in Province

Quebec’s Health Department says 52 monkeypox cases have been confirmed in the province. Health officials said in a tweet late Wednesday the number of confirmed cases is as of Tuesday, up from 25 cases reported one week earlier. Monkeypox is a rare disease that comes from the same family of viruses that causes smallpox, which…


WHO Says Monkeypox May Have Been Spreading Undetected

Officials with the World Health Organization (WHO) say that the sudden rise in monkeypox cases worldwide suggests that it has been spreading in an undetected manner for some time. “We don’t really know whether it’s too late to contain. What WHO and all member states are trying to do is prevent onward spread,” Dr. Rosamund…