While the state Department of Public Health does respond to crises — including the COVID pandemic of 2020 and the Mpox outbreak of 2022 — by declaring public health emergencies and ramping up ...

China, Iran and Russia have conducted joint naval drills in the Middle East. The joint drills held Tuesday, called the Maritime Security Belt 2025, took place in the Gulf of ...

MITI MURHESA, Congo (AP) — Hospitals across eastern Congo that were once at the forefront of the country’s response to the mpox outbreak are facing a setback in detecting the disease and ...

Several collective measures were undertaken to coordinate the Health Portfolio response to the outbreak, raise awareness, and empower communities to adopt public health measures, to protect groups at ...

By Apoorva Mandavilli Dangerous pathogens left unsecured at labs across Africa. Halted inspections for mpox, Ebola and other infections at airports and other checkpoints. Millions of unscreened ...

Mpox (Monkeypox) is a highly contagious viral disease that can be transmitted from animal-to-human or human-to-human through intimate contact, Mpox is caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV), which is an ...

Some people living with chronic stress have a higher risk of stroke, according to a study published on March 5, 2025, online in Neurology ®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

A NEW mutant strain of mpox discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo could be better at spreading between people, health officials warn. This new mutation of the Clade 1a mpox variant "has ...

Health experts have warned that a new mutant strain of mpox has been discovered and it could be more infectious than current variants. The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ACDCP ...

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said he will run for a second term in November, amid tensions with an opposition that refuses to recognize him as ...