EU health agency advises member states to plan for monkeypox jabs
Programmes would use smallpox vaccine and immunise close contacts of confirmed cases (Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare)
Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare - May 22, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Monkeypox outbreak questions intensify as cases soar
A rare smallpox relative has jumped from Africa to four other continents with a disproportionate number of cases in men who have sex with men (Source: ScienceNOW)
Source: ScienceNOW - May 21, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
FDA approves smallpox drug also believed to be able to treat monkeypox
The FDA has given the greenlight to the IV version of TPOXX, a smallpox drug that can be used to treat monkeypox. Many smallpox drugs are used to treat the rare virus as there are no therapeutics. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Monkeypox Spreads in West, Baffling African Scientists
Scientists who have monitored numerous outbreaks of monkeypox in Africa say they are baffled by the disease’s recent spread in Europe and North America.
Cases of the smallpox-related disease have previously been seen only among people with links to central and West Africa. But in the past week, Britain, Spain, Portugal, Italy, U.S., Sweden and Canada all reported infections, mostly in young men who hadn’t previously traveled to Africa.
France, Germany, Belgium and Australia confirmed their first cases of monkeypox on Friday.
“I’m stunned by this. Every day I wake up and there are more countries infe...
Source: TIME: Health - May 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Maria Cheng / AP Tags: Uncategorized Africa Disease healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
How Rahima came to hold a special place in smallpox history — and help ensure its end
Scientists went to extraordinary lengths to eradicate smallpox from the world. Rahima Banu is now recorded as having the last known naturally-occurring case of the deadly form.(Image credit: Daniel Tarantola/WHO) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - May 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alissa Escarce Source Type: news
Emerging cases of monkeypox investigated
Child with lesions from monkeypox, courtesy CDC archive Scientists around the world are investigating multiple clusters of monkeypox cases in 12 countries, including one confirmed and one suspected case in the U.S., that have been reported. It's a viral zoonotic disease, meaning it is a virus transmitted to humans from animals but can also be transmitted person-to-person. "Monkeypox is in the same family of virus as smallpox, but it should not be confused with smallpox… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - May 20, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
U.K. to offer smallpox vaccine shots to health workers as monkeypox spreads in Europe
A smattering of monkeypox cases in Britain has prompted authorities to offer a smallpox vaccine to some health-care workers and others who may have been exposed, as a handful more cases were confirmed in parts of Europe. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - May 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
What Is Monkeypox and Should You Be Worried?
A case of the rare and potentially dangerous monkeypox has been confirmed in the U.S., with two news cases appearing in the U.K., bringing the total number there to nine.
The infected Massachusetts man had recently traveled to Canada and is now receiving treatment in hospital, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Department of Health said the case poses no risk to the public.
It’s the first reported infection in the U.S. so far this year and follows reports of scattered cases in Europe. In addition, health officials in Canada are investigating up to 13 cases in Montreal, Radio-Canada...
Source: TIME: Health - May 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Damian Shepherd and Alex Millson / Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized bloomberg wire Disease healthscienceclimate Londontime Source Type: news
A Massachusetts Man Is Infected With Monkeypox
The case, the first in the U.S. this year, follows unusual clusters discovered in Europe and Canada. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - May 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: your-feed-science Medicine and Health Great Britain Disease Rates Viruses Public Health Department (Mass) Canada Europe Massachusetts Smallpox Source Type: news
Durham firm Chimerix sells smallpox drug in $337M deal, but stock slides 60%
A Durham biopharmaceutical company is selling its lone FDA-approved product, a smallpox treatment. But investors don't appear too happy about the deal. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - May 16, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Zac Ezzone Source Type: news
Gaithersburg's Emergent BioSolutions to acquire smallpox drug from Chimerix
The deal follows a turbulent chapter for the company that started in March 2021, when its Baltimore plant was found to have contaminated millions of doses of Johnson& Johnson's Covid vaccine. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - May 16, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Sara Gilgore Source Type: news
Gaithersburg's Emergent BioSolutions to acquire smallpox drug from Chimerix
The federal government is the local company's biggest customer. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - May 16, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Sara Gilgore Source Type: news
Racial disparity, social determinates of health, and slavery during the Boston smallpox epidemics of the eighteenth century - Nakayama DK.
When Benjamin Franklin published the mortality rates from smallpox during the Boston smallpox epidemic of 1752, he revealed that Blacks not only had a higher mortality rate from smallpox (12.8%, 62/485; 8.9% for whites, 452/5,059), but once inoculated, had... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Nigeria: African Vaccination Week 2022 - Equitable Vaccine Access Can Help Build Resilient Communities
[Nigeria Health Watch] From the old (smallpox) to the new (COVID-19), for centuries, vaccines have helped save and promote healthier lives for people of all ages. In the last 2 decades, major gains in the development and production of vaccines have helped prevent more than 20 life-threatening diseases. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 12, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Equitable Vaccine Access Can Help Build Resilient Communities
[Nigeria Health Watch] From the old (smallpox) to the new (COVID-19), for centuries, vaccines have helped save and promote healthier lives for people of all ages. In the last 2 decades, major gains in the development and production of vaccines have helped prevent more than 20 life-threatening diseases. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 12, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
