Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

RARE PHOTOS: Anne rimoin - The Real Truth

3 new Ebola vaccines are being fast-tracked amid the current outbreak — when could they be ready?

The Bundibugyo virus driving the current Ebola outbreak has no approved vaccine, but researchers are leveraging decades of vaccine innovation in an effort to change that.

LiveScience

Mystery Illness Claims Nearly 150 Lives In Africa, Sparking Pandemic Fears

. Health officials, including those from the WHO, are investing the mysterious illness with flu-like symptoms that killed dozens of people in southwest Congo.

Medical Daily

Why the mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is worrying disease docs

With a dramatic jump in cases — and a strain of mpox that is deadlier than the virus that went global in 2022 — specialists are scrambling to reign it in.

WEKU

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Scientists' big monkeypox fear: It will spread to wild animals and be here to stay

Maureen Miller, an infectious disease epidemiologist and medical anthropologist at Columbia University, was not surprised to learn this week that an Italian greyhound in Paris had become the first dog known to catch monkeypox from a human.

Los Angeles Times

Smaller doses of monkeypox vaccine got the OK. Here's how that works at one clinic

LOS ANGELES — Mark Webber and Doug Brown rose before dawn to make the trip from Agoura Hills, California, arriving around 6 a.m. at the Leimert Park clinic in the hopes of getting vaccinated against monkeypox.

Los Angeles Times

With monkeypox in the news, why are people talking about smallpox?

LOS ANGELES — Why are we talking about smallpox again?

Los Angeles Times

With supplies low, FDA authorizes plan to stretch limited monkeypox vaccine doses

The Biden administration is allowing the shot to be given between layers of skin — a method that only requires a fifth of the full dose — in order to increase vaccinations and slow the outbreak.

WEKU

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Monkeypox emergency could last months and window is closing to stop spread, say experts

Scientists advising the World Health Organisation (WHO) have warned that the monkeypox outbreak could take several months to peak.

Evening Standard

Monkeypox Emergency Could Last Months, with Window Closing to Stop Spread, Experts Say

Scientists advising the World Health Organization (WHO) on monkeypox say the window is closing to stop its spread, with cases currently doubling every two weeks, raising concerns that it will take several months for the outbreak to peak. WHO Europe has forecast just over 27,000 monkeypox cases in 88 countries…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Monkeypox emergency could last months, with window closing to stop spread, experts say

Reuters

Epidemiologists warn the U.S. reaches a critical moment to contain monkeypox

Cases in the U.S. are 10 times higher than they were a month ago. Researchers advise that the coming days and weeks will be crucial as to whether the outbreak can be contained.

WEKU

The monkeypox outbreak was avoidable and warning signs were ignored, expert says

Monkeypox has been a developing problem for decades and the current global outbreak was avoidable, but the looming threat was largely ignored, according to a leading expert on the virus.

WEKU

Scientists warned us about monkeypox in 1988. Here's why they were right.

Their prediction stemmed from the eradication of smallpox. Here's what they said more than three decades ago — and how it foreshadowed events of 2022.

WEKU

Here's why scientists aren't 'crazy scared' about monkeypox

The monkeypox outbreak has captured the attention of an anxious public that's struggling to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and is on high alert for the next virus that might upend our lives.

Los Angeles Times

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

WEKU

Rare monkeypox outbreak in U.K., Europe and U.S.: What is it and should we worry?

The cases point to possible sexual transmission of this cousin of smallpox — a previously unknown method of spread for monkeypox.

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

World Health Organization

915 stories

Moderna

860 stories

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

317 stories

World Health Organisation

299 stories

CEPI

28 stories

the University of Pittsburgh

28 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

the Democratic Republic of Congo

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.