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FILE: A surge in monkeypox infections has been reported since early May outside the West and Central African countries where the disease has long been endemic. Picture: © halfpoint/123rf.com

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WHO urges people to limit sexual partners amid surge of monkeypox

By AFP

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who last Saturday declared monkeypox a global health emergency, told reporters that the best way to protect against...

  • Monkeypox belongs to the Poxviridae family of viruses, which includes smallpox. Picture: CDC/Cynthia S. Goldsmith

    WHO declares monkeypox outbreak a global public health emergency

    This is the highest alarm the organisation can sound.

    21 days ago
  • Monkeypox belongs to the Poxviridae family of viruses, which includes smallpox. Picture: CDC/Cynthia S. Goldsmith

    WHO to say if it will classify monkeypox as a global health emergency

    The head of the World Health Organization is on Saturday expected to declare if the agency has decided to classify the outbreak as a global health emergency -- the highest alarm it can sound.

    21 days ago
  • FILE: More than 4500 monkeypox cases have been detected globally. Picture: CDC/Cynthia S. Goldsmith

    Monkeypox: WHO concerned about countries where cases were never detected

    South Africa reported its second laboratory-confirmed case of the viral disease this week.

    44 days ago
  • Monkeypox belongs to the Poxviridae family of viruses, which includes smallpox. Picture: CDC/Cynthia S. Goldsmith

    WHO says monkeypox not currently a global health emergency

    A surge of monkeypox cases has been detected since early May outside of the West and Central African countries where the disease has long been endemic. Most of the new cases have been in Western Europe.

    48 days ago
  • Picture: rawpixel/123rf.com

    Parents, caregivers encouraged to ensure children have full measles vaccination

    This follows a recent warning of a possible measles outbreak by the Health Department. The World Health Organisation has reported a 400% increase in cases of measles between January and March this year.

    102 days ago
  • FILE: A member of the medical staff wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) arrives in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for the COVID-19 cases, in the San Filippo Neri Hospital in Rome, on 29 October 2020. Picture: AFP

    WHO believes several European countries lifted COVID restrictions 'too brutally'

    WHO Europe director Hans Kluge told a press conference in Moldova that he was "optimistic but vigilant" about the pandemic's development in Europe.

    144 days ago
  • FILE: During the first year of the pandemic, there was also a 25.6-percent hike in cases of anxiety disorders worldwide, it found. Picture: unsplash.com

    WHO: Anxiety, depression cases up by over 25% globally due to COVID

    The World Health Organization also found that the COVID-19 crisis had in many cases significantly impeded access to mental health services and raised concerns about increases in suicidal behaviour.

    164 days ago
  • A health worker administers a dose of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine at a coronavirus vaccination centre at the Fazl Mosque in southwest London on March 23, 2021, on the first anniversary of the first national COVID-19 lockdown. Picture: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP

    WHO sees pause, even end of pandemic for Europe

    WHO Europe director Hans Kluge spoke of 'a ceasefire that could bring us enduring peace', with high vaccination rates, the milder Omicron variant and the end of winter in sight.

    191 days ago
  • FILE: Police officers manning a check point quiz a driver going into the central business district on 20 April 2020, in Emakhandeni township, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Picture: AFP.

    WHO reveals Zimbabwe has deadliest roads in southern Africa

    New figures show that Zimbabwe has the highest rate of fatal road accidents in southern Africa.

    211 days ago
  • FILE: Picture: LUCA SOLA/AFP

    WHO says research on transmissibility of Omicron under way

    The Omicron coronavirus variant has been detected in 38 countries around the world.

    253 days ago
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    Omicron makes land, spreading across United States and Australia

    The US and Australia announced their first locally transmitted cases of the Omicron variant as authorities worldwide rush to stem the spread of the heavily mutated strain of COVID-19.

    253 days ago
  • FILE: This handout picture made available by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivering remarks following the speech of US President's chief medical adviser during a World Health Organization (WHO) executive board meeting on 21 January 2021 in Geneva. Picture: AFP

    Vaccines reduce COVID transmission of Delta variant by 40%: WHO

    The World Health Organisation's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged vaccinated people to continue to take measures to avoid catching COVID-19 and passing on the disease.

    262 days ago
  • Children bask in the sun next to a wall along a street in Nad Ali district, Helmand province on 10 November 2021. Picture: AFP

    Heaping upon misery, Afghanistan now faces raging measles outbreak

    The WHO says the outbreak is particularly concerning since Afghanistan faces surging food insecurity and malnutrition.

    274 days ago
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    ANALYSIS: SA front-page stories about COVID were sensationalist and unhelpful

    We analysed 681 stories on COVID-19 to explore the ways in which the papers presented the COVID-19 pandemic to their readers.

    276 days ago
  • FILE: More than 7.25 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered globally, according to an AFP tally. Picture: 123rf.com

    WHO warns of up to two billion syringe shortfall in 2022

    The shortages are the result of COVID-19 vaccine campaigns, with billions more syringes than normal being used worldwide, badly denting global supplies.

    277 days ago
  • FILE: These include auto-disable syringes used to administer Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID vaccine, WHO said. Picture: 123rf.com

    Syringe shortfall threatens Africa's COVID vaccine drive

    UNICEF, the United Nation's fund for children, is predicting an "imminent shortfall" of up to 2.2 billion of the single-use syringes used to give jabs, WHO Africa said.

    289 days ago
  • FILE: Health specialists prepare for work in an isolation ward for patients at the Doctors Without Borders facility in Gukedou, southern Guinea. Picture: AFP.

    Guinea declares end of Marburg virus outbreak: WHO

    Health authorities in the country confirmed West Africa's first recorded case of Marburg on August 9, in a man whose infection was detected after he had died a week earlier.

    330 days ago
  • FILE: World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on 3 July 2020 at the WHO headquarters in Geneva. Picture: AFP

    WHO reiterates importance of COVID vaccine equity

    The WHO's target is to have 40% of all countries' population vaccinated by the end of this year and 70% of the world's population by the middle of next year.

    332 days ago
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