Under our current age of Trump, it’s frankly stranger when the federal government doesn’t do something completely unproductive. The latest bit of pointlessness? The U.S. Department of Health…
Read more Feds Suspiciously Revive the Name ‘Monkeypox’ After Dropping It in 2022As mpox continues to spread in Central Africa, a promising antiviral drug to treat the infection has failed to improve patients’ symptoms in a trial in the Democratic…
Read more Promising Mpox Drug Fails in Trials as Virus SpreadsIn May 2023, the World Health Organization released a statement declaring the end of mpox—formerly known as monkeypox—as a public health emergency. Just over a year later, the…
Read more This Mpox Outbreak Isn’t Like the Last OneSwedish health officials said Thursday they have identified the first case of a person with the more infectious form of mpox first seen in eastern Congo, a day…
Read more Sweden has its first case of infectious mpoxU.S. health officials concerned mpox outbreak could continue into summer months – CBS News Watch CBS News More than 20 cases of mpox have been reported in the…
Read more U.S. health officials concerned mpox outbreak could continue into summer monthsBy Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Feb. 22, 2023 (HealthDay News) – The mpox virus — formerly known as monkeypox — often causes severe illness and death in…
Read more Mpox Can Be Fatal for People With Advanced HIVNewswise — LA JOLLA, CA—There’s even more reason to think a vaccine developed against smallpox can help the body fight against mpox (monkeypox virus disease) as well, according…
Read more LJI scientists confirm smallpox vaccine also teaches T cells to fight mpoxThe Biden administration plans to officially switch how it refers to the disease once dubbed “monkeypox” to use the new name “mpox” instead, adopting a long-awaited renaming recommendation…
Read more Health agencies renamingWidespread protests across China over the government’s zero-COVID policy dominated pandemic headlines Monday, with Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, weighing in with the view that…
Read more China’s zero-COVID strategy makes no sense and its homegrown vaccines are not ‘particularly effective,’ says FauciOct. 7, 2022 — Monkeypox cases in the U.S. disproportionately affect Black Americans, with rates five times higher than among white peers, according to a new report from…
Read more Monkeypox Case Rates 5 Times Higher in Black AmericansNEW YORK — Some U.S. health officials are conceding that monkeypox is probably not going away anytime soon. The disease’s spread is slowing but the virus is so…
Read more Some officials now say monkeypox elimination unlikely in USSept. 30, 2022 — Ohio health officials reported the death of a monkeypox patient, marking the third known death of a U.S. patient with monkeypox, according to CNN.…
Read more Ohio Reports Death of Monkeypox PatientSept. 29, 2022 — People who didn’t get the monkeypox vaccine were 14 times more likely to get infected with the virus, data from the CDC says. “There…
Read more People Without Monkeypox Vaccination 14 Times More Likely to Get InfectedA roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely…
Read more NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
