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6/21/2022 10:58:37 PM
France has detected 277 cases of monkeypox, health authorities said Tuesday, including the first case in the country of a woman contracting the virus.
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6/20/2022 4:01:10 PM
Lebanon's Health Ministry reported on Monday the first monkeypox case in the country, noting that the patient's condition is stable.
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6/15/2022 10:30:44 PM
Top scientist Anthony Fauci, the face of America's response to the Covid-19 pandemic, tested positive Wednesday for the virus on a rapid antigen test but is continuing to work from home while he recovers, the National Institutes of Health said.
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6/13/2022 9:38:29 PM
President Joe Biden's top health official has again tested positive for COVID-19, less than a month after he came down with virus symptoms while on a trip to Germany.
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6/2/2022 4:46:11 PM
Morocco confirmed Thursday its first case of the monkeypox virus, with the country’s Ministry of Health and Social Protection saying that the case was most likely imported from abroad.
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6/2/2022 3:09:45 PM
The WHO said Wednesday that hundreds of monkeypox cases have surfaced beyond the African countries where the disease is typically found, warning the virus has likely been spreading under the radar.
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5/27/2022 5:07:28 PM
Argentina reported Latin America's first confirmed case of the monkeypox virus on Friday in a man who recently travelled to Spain.
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5/26/2022 12:07:08 PM
Egypt has contacted a number of companies to obtain raw materials required to manufacture the monkeypox drugs and to import PCR test kits to detect the virus, Acting Minister of Health Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar said on Wednesday.
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5/24/2022 6:44:19 PM
Health authorities in the United Arab Emirates detected on Tuesday the country's first case of the monkeypox virus in a young woman who traveled from West Africa.
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5/23/2022 8:37:03 PM
The monkeypox outbreaks in non-endemic countries can be contained and human-to-human transmission of the virus stopped, the World Health Organization said Monday.
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5/22/2022 12:42:52 PM
Britain is seeing daily infections of the rare monkeypox virus that are unconnected to any travel to West Africa, where the disease is endemic, a health official said on Sunday.
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5/12/2022 5:07:06 PM
President Joe Biden appealed to world leaders on Thursday for a renewed international commitment to attacking COVID-19 as he led the U.S. in marking the approaching ``tragic milestone'' of 1 million deaths at home from the virus. He ordered flags lowered to half-staff and warned against ``complacency'' around the globe.
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5/12/2022 12:30:55 PM
North Korea imposed a nationwide lockdown Thursday to control its first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak after holding for more than two years to a widely doubted claim of a perfect record-keeping of the virus that has spread to nearly every place in the world.
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5/9/2022 5:27:49 PM
Authorities in Shanghai have again tightened anti-virus restrictions, just as the city was emerging from a month of strict lockdown due to a COVID-19 outbreak.
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5/8/2022 6:25:39 PM
Researchers trying to learn what killed the first person to receive a pig heart transplant have found the organ harbored an animal virus.
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5/5/2022 4:19:22 PM
The European Union's drug watchdog said Thursday that it is assessing the possible use of Moderna's Covid vaccine for children aged five and under, the only group not yet eligible for the jab in most countries.
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4/28/2022 2:37:41 PM
Beijing is closing all city schools in a further tightening of COVID-19 restrictions, as China's capital seeks to prevent a wider outbreak.
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4/26/2022 9:10:06 PM
A dramatic drop in testing for Covid-19 has left the world blind to the virus's continuing rampage and its potentially dangerous mutations, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday.
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4/20/2022 4:55:17 PM
Child vaccination rates in Lebanon have dropped by more than 30 percent, compounding a health crisis marked by drug shortages and an exodus of trained professionals, the United Nations said Wednesday.
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4/14/2022 12:31:28 PM
The Valneva vaccine is made with the decades-old technology used to manufacture shots for flu and polio. It is the sixth COVID-19 vaccine the U.K. has cleared and the only one that utilizes a "killed'' virus; scientists grow the coronavirus in a lab and then inactivate the virus so it cannot replicate or infect cells.
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