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World Health Organization calls for worldwide equity as case numbers grow and countries compete for 16.4 million doses

On July 23, the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. It was a contentious decision, with the WHO’s director-general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, making the final call and overruling the WHO’s emergency committee. The advisory committee’s disagreements mirrored debates that have been unfolding among…

Deep into their third year of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, local and state public health workers are battered, depleted and, in many places, demoralized.

No one studying polio knew more than Albert Sabin, the Polish-American scientist whose vaccine against the crippling disease has been used worldwide since 1959. Sabin’s oral vaccine provides lifelong immunity. It has one drawback, which Sabin, who died in 1993, fiercely disputed: In rare cases, the weakened live poliovirus in…

Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute believe they found a genetic feature of the covid virus that appeared 'similar' to a number of coronaviruses that are less prone to mutations which could prove as a 'holy grail' vaccine.

Australian children aged 5–15 years have reported fewer side effects in the days after receiving the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine than those in clinical trials.

The vast majority of deaths due to monkeypox have been registered on the African continent. Africa remains the only part of the world with no doses of the vaccine, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Spain has logged two deaths since Friday, believed to be the first confirmed fatalities from monkeypox in Europe.