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By Anjali Sharma UNITED NATIONS – World health agency on Monday warned that the worsening security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has forced many mpox patients to flee treatment centres, increasing the risk of…

GG News Bureau Thiruvananthapuram, 24th Sept. A 38-year-old man in Kerala has been confirmed to have contracted the monkeypox virus, known as MPOX, after returning from the UAE. Health authorities have identified his infection as the MPOX…

GG News Bureau New Delhi, 9th Sept. The Union Health Ministry on Monday directed states and union territories to intensify screening and testing for suspected mpox cases and establish dedicated isolation facilities in hospitals for both…

GG News Bureau New Delhi, 20th August. The All India Institute for Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has introduced a new protocol for managing suspected mpox cases in response to the World Health Organization's declaration of the disease as a…

GG News Bureau New Delhi, 19th August. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is closely monitoring the country's preparedness in response to the World Health Organization's (WHO) declaration of MPox as a Public Health Emergency of International…

Anjali Sharma GG News Bureau UNITED NATIONS, 12th May. Head of the WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday declared that the multi-country outbreak of the mpox virus began a year ago was no longer a public health emergency of…

World Health Organization on Monday announced that Monkeypox will now be known as mpox, after reports of racist and stigmatizing language surrounding the name of the disease.