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A search has been launched for a Nigerian man after lab tests proved he has Thailand's first confirmed case of monkeypox, Phuket deputy governor Pichet Panapong said on Friday.

UNICEF's director called the worldwide trend "a red alert for child health."

Wesley Williams, 34, struggled to stand up and broke out in spots 30 minutes into his shift one day after he visited a sauna on a trip to London.

The World Health Organization will reconvene its expert monkeypox committee on Thursday to decide whether the outbreak now constitutes a global health emergency -- the highest alarm it can sound. A second meeting of the WHO's emergency committee on the virus will be held to examine the evidence of the…

As the World Health Organization announces the next step in its rollout of the world’s first authorized malaria vaccine in three African countries, concerns about its value have come from an unlikely source: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, arguably the vaccine’s biggest backer

The World Health Organization is convening its emergency committee to consider for the second time within weeks whether the expanding outbreak of monkeypox should be declared a global crisis

Earlier this week, New Zealand health minister Andrew Little stated what most who work in health already know.

Only one in seven people in low-income countries are fully vaccinated with poorest pushed to the ‘back of the queue’

Virologists voice concerns about highly-contagious BA.2.75 which is thought to spread faster than its Omicron relatives