Designed against a related disease, the monkeypox vaccine is used to protect those most at risk from the spread of the disease outside endemic areas. Update on its operation and effectiveness. – What vaccine? It is a vaccine against human smallpox, a fatal disease eradicated in 1980, which is currently used against monkeypox. These two … Read more
AFP, published on Friday, August 05, 2022 at 09:10 The United States declared a public health emergency over the monkeypox outbreak on Thursday, a decision that should free up funds, facilitate data collection and deploy more personnel to fight the disease. With more than 6,600 cases recorded in the country, including about a quarter in … Read more
AFP, published on Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 09:44 Tests for the detection of the monkeypox virus will be reimbursed 100% by Health Insurance, said Saturday an order in the Official Journal, after a recommendation to this effect from the High Health Authority. “The development of the monkeypox epidemic implies being able to confirm cases … Read more
AFP, published on Friday, July 29, 2022 at 6:24 p.m. In Ile-de-France, epicenter of the monkeypox epidemic, the vaccination campaign is starting to gain momentum, despite the lack of personnel, with the will displayed by the authorities not to forget the people furthest away of the care system. According to the latest report from Public … Read more
The modern strain of the facial herpes virus, which causes cold sores, dates back around 5,000 years, according to the authors of a recent study. “We were able to determine that the variations of the modern strains all date back to some time in the late Neolithic, early Bronze Age“, explained Christiana Scheib, co-lead author … Read more
AFP, published on Friday, July 22, 2022 at 02:45 The WHO director-general said he was “worried” on Thursday about the rise in the number of monkeypox cases at the opening of the Emergency Committee meeting, seeking advice from experts before deciding on the reaching the highest level of alert in the organization. “I need your … Read more
By Clara Hidalgo Published yesterday at 5:28 p.m., Update yesterday at 9:52 p.m. A WHO doctor takes an oral sample from a patient, suspected of having Marburg hemorrhagic fever, in Kinguangua, DRC, May 6, 2005. CHRISTOPHER BLACK / WHO / AFP This is the first time that this hemorrhagic fever, as deadly as Ebola, has … Read more
AFP, published on Monday, July 18, 2022 at 00:08 With its tables and chairs lined up and the medical equipment, the gymnasium, in a high school in Brooklyn, is reminiscent of an anti-Covid vaccination center: but it was for monkey pox that it opened on Sunday in New York, “epicenter ” American viral disease. Outside, … Read more
AFP, published on Tuesday, July 05, 2022 at 11:10 p.m. The immune response to Covid-19, which damages the blood vessels of the brain, could be responsible for the symptoms of “Covid long”, according to a study based on a low number of cases and published Tuesday by American researchers. The brains of nine people who … Read more
AFP, published on Monday, July 04, 2022 at 09:25 As misinformation about Covid-19 continues to flourish, more parents in the United States are questioning whether other vaccines are necessary for their children and more and more adults prefer to go without injections, even those whose safety has long been proven. Because the politicization of vaccines … Read more