Tag: monkeypox

CDC Concerned About Pace of Monkeypox ‘Developing Worldwide’ Among Gay and Bisexual Men

U.S. health officials are concerned about the pace monkeypox is “developing worldwide” and said they will launch an awareness effort targeting gay and bisexual men and their health care providers ahead of Pride Month starting next week. This comes as 200 Massachusetts health care workers are being monitored as contacts of the man who was…


WHO Provides Update on Monkeypox Outbreak as CDC in Process of Releasing Vaccine

The World Health Organization (WHO) believes that while the monkeypox outbreak is unusual, it can be contained, according to an official with the U.N. health agency. “It’s not something we’ve seen over the last few years,” Sylvie Briand, director of the WHO’s epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention department, told Bloomberg News on Tuesday. The…


US Starts Process to Release Vaccine for Monkeypox: CDC

Doses of the Jynneos vaccine are being released in the United States to prevent monkeypox amid rising cases in the past few weeks in several countries not endemic for the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). There are more than 1,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine that were approved in the…


Monkeypox ‘Games’ Could Lay Groundwork for WHO Pandemic Takeover

News Analysis The World Health Organization (WHO) is responding to a string of monkeypox outbreaks, and will be convening an emergency meeting on the virus and its global spread. In terms of government power, the timing of this outbreak couldn’t be better for the WHO—which may soon be granted the powers to manage laws on…


Monkeypox ‘Games’ Could Lay Groundwork for WHO Pandemic Response Takeover

News Analysis The World Health Organization (WHO) is responding to a string of monkeypox outbreaks, and will be convening an emergency meeting on the virus and its global spread. In terms of government power, the timing of this outbreak couldn’t be better for the WHO—which may soon be granted the powers to manage laws on…


Facts Matter (May 23): ‘Imagine The Compliance’: Pfizer CEO Pitched World Economic Forum On WiFi Microchip Pills

Apparently, there is a new global health threat. As reported by many news outlets, monkeypox is spreading throughout the world—with countries like Belgium even instituting mandatory lockdown measures to cope with the outbreak. However, the Biden administration has a plan. According to a letter sent by the Biden administration to the WHO, it is proposing new amendments…


Monkeypox Was a Table-Top Simulation Only Last Year

Commentary Elite media outlets around the world are on red alert over the world’s first-ever global outbreak of Monkeypox in mid-May 2022—just one year after an international biosecurity conference in Munich held a simulation of a “global pandemic involving an unusual strain of Monkeypox” beginning in mid-May 2022. Monkeypox was first identified in 1958, but there’s never…


More Monkeypox Cases Suspected in Fourth US State: Officials

Authorities in Utah on Monday said they are investigating two possible monkeypox cases—the fourth U.S. state to probe potential instances of the virus in recent days. The Salt Lake County Health Department said two adults in a household located in the country are suspected to have monkeypox based on preliminary testing, according to a news…


Monkeypox Outbreak Primarily Spreading via Sexual Contact: WHO Officials

The recent outbreak of the monkeypox virus in North America and Europe is primarily spreading through sex, according to World Health Organization (WHO) officials on Monday, while confirming about 200 cases so far. The virus itself is not a sexually transmitted infection, but WHO officials said the recent surge in cases is linked to homosexual…


Monkeypox Cases in UK Rises to 57, Johnson Says None Fatal

Confirmed monkeypox cases in the UK have more than doubled to 57. The figure, released by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on Monday, was an increase from the previously confirmed 20 cases. There are 56 confirmed cases in England and Scotland confirmed its first case on Monday. Northern Ireland’s Public Health Agency and Public…