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Four rapid antigen test kits (RATs) have been removed from sale after failing to comply with WHO standards of efficacy in detecting COVID-19 variants.

The European Union’s commissioner for health is urging the bloc’s governments to step up their efforts to tackle the expanding monkeypox outbreak

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…

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.

Virologists voice concerns about highly-contagious BA.2.75 which is thought to spread faster than its Omicron relatives

"From 13 May through 22 July, close to 12,000 probable or confirmed cases, mostly in men who have sex with men, have been reported in the [European] Region, of whom 8% were hospitalized with, fortunately, no deaths to date," Kluge said in a statement. Full story on Dynamite News:

‘Pandemic likely arose from at least two separate infections of humans from animals at the Huanan market,’ scientists say

Not long after the World Health Organization and China released a report last year dismissing the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in a lab leak, scientists from major research institutions around the world noted the paucity of the published data, and advocated for a rigorous scientific investigation into the…

Monkeypox is very unpleasant and it spreads very fast, but it's not a real killer: 16,000 cases in 75 countries in just a couple of months is impressive, but there have been only five deaths.