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Monkeypox: High-risk contacts of cases advised to self-isolate for three weeks and avoid children

Government has released new guidance with self-isolation periods for UK monkeypox cases

The Independent UK

Covid Scotland: Only one Edinburgh neighbourhood remains a 'hotspot'

The Scottish Government data, provided by Public Health Scotland, also shows the nine areas in the capital that are 'coronavirus free' including Pilton, Cramond and Gorgie.

Edinburgh Live

Monkeypox detected in Austria, Switzerland and Israel

A virus causing patients fever, rash, and exhaustion has reached three more countries. A man in Vienna was taken to hospital with sores on his face.

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WHO chief: The COVID pandemic is 'most certainly not over'

The head of the World Health Organization has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over” despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the omicron wave

The Independent UK

President Biden says ‘everybody’ should be concerned about monkeypox after CDC urges calm

President said officials are determining ‘what vaccine if any might be available for it’ after US already ordered millions of doses of smallpox vaccine that is effective against monkeypox

The Independent UK

Monkeypox monitoring centre formed

As monkeypox spreads around the world, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) has set up a Public Health Crisis Command Centre to monitor the situation worldwide and set short-, mid- and long-term response strategies.

Bangkok Post

Russia intensifies push into Donbas as Polish president visits Kyiv

Only Ukraine has the right to decide its future, Polish President Andrzej Duda told lawmakers in Kyiv on Sunday, becoming the first foreign leader to give an in-person speech to the Ukrainian parliament since the Russian invasion. President Volodymyr Zelensky said late Saturday that the situation in Donbas had become…

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Monkeypox outbreak: WHO working on sexual contact theory, top adviser says

David Heymann says experts developing guidance for countries, as New York City resident tests positive for Orthopoxvirus

The Guardian - US

Monkeypox: Scientists ‘stunned’ by spread of virus in Europe and North America

‘This is not the kind of spread we’ve seen in West Africa, so there may be something new happening in the West,’ one expert said

The Independent UK

WHO expects more cases of monkeypox to emerge globally

The World Health Organization said it expects to identify more cases of monkeypox as it expands surveillance in countries where the disease is not typically found.

Reuters

Researchers share draft genome sequences of monkeypox virus

The draft genome indicates that the virus circulating outside Africa belongs to the West African clade

The Hindu

Monkeypox outbreak is 'biggest ever in Europe' and an 'epidemic', says expert

The number of cases in Europe is the largest outbreak ever reported according to WHO, with 20 in the UK alone amid warnings from an expert it has reached epidemic proportions

Daily Mirror

Explainer-How worried should we be about the monkeypox global health emergency?

The rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak constitutes a global health emergency, the World Health Organization's highest alert level, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared on Saturday.

Reuters

Monkeypox: What we know about rare virus as more cases confirmed around globe

Tropical disease now detected in UK, US, Canada, Australia Spain and Portugal

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Bangkok Post

Monkeypox: A rare virus on the rise

The rare monkeypox virus, usually confined mostly to Central and West Africa, has spread in unusual ways this year and among populations that have not been vulnerable in the past.

ABC News

WHO holds emergency meeting on monkeypox spread as Europe cases rise

At least nine European countries have confirmed cases of monkeypox, with WHO officials worrying it may spread further during the northern hemisphere summer.

Wales Online

Monkeypox outbreak will not be next pandemic, say scientists

'This will not be a pandemic as we know pandemics'

Evening Standard

Monkeypox: WHO emergency meeting amid ‘largest outbreak ever’ of disease in Europe

The World Health Organization was due to hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the monkeypox outbreak after more than 100 cases were confirmed or suspected in Europe.

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Al Jazeera

Monkeypox spreading in Europe, US, has African scientists baffled

WHO’s European chief concerned that monkeypox could spread as people gather for parties and festivals over the summer.

The Independent UK

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

The National (Scotland)

Monkeypox: WHO convenes emergency meeting as UK cases double

The news comes as causes double in the UK.

Reuters

WHO to hold emergency meeting on monkeypox on Friday -sources

The World Health Organization is set to hold an emergency meeting to discuss monkeypox on Friday, according to sources close to the U.N. agency.

Reuters

WHO calls emergency meeting as monkeypox cases top 100 in Europe

The World Health Organization was holding an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the recent outbreak of monkeypox, a viral infection more common to west and central Africa, after over 100 cases were confirmed or suspected in Europe.

Wales Online

UK monkeypox cases double as WHO plans emergency meeting over outbreak

More cases reported today

The Independent UK

Monkeypox: What we know about rare virus as more cases confirmed around globe

Tropical disease also detected in US, Spain and Portugal this month

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