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Monkeypox: Deceased in Bolgatanga was a soldier – Health Directorate

Monkeypox: Deceased in Bolgatanga was a soldier – Health Directorate

Ghana News
A soldier with the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has died of Monkeypox in Bolgatanga, the Upper East Regional Health Directorate has said. He was admitted at the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital and passed on three days later. He was admitted at the hospital on July 23, 2022 with symptoms of the disease but died on Tuesday, July 26, 2022 while receiving treatment. First case in Upper East Confirming the incident to the media at the weekend, the Upper East Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Emmanuel Kofi Dzotsi, said it was the first case to be recorded in the region. He noted that plans were underway to educate the public on the disease and other safety measures to help protect them from contracting the virus. "I can confirm that we have recorded on...
EU approves smallpox vaccine for use against monkeypox

EU approves smallpox vaccine for use against monkeypox

International, World News
Approval of Imvanex comes after the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global health emergency. The European Union’s executive arm has approved a smallpox vaccine for use against monkeypox after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared its spread a global health emergency, the Danish drugmaker that developed the jab said. “The European Commission has extended the marketing authorisation for the company’s smallpox vaccine, Imvanex, to include protection from monkeypox” in line with a recommendation by the EU’s medicines watchdog, Bavarian Nordic said in a statement on Monday. “The approval … is valid in all European Union Member States as well as in Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.” The European Medicines Agency (EMA) carries out a scientific assessm...
Ghana: Greater Accra has more than 50% of monkeypox cases

Ghana: Greater Accra has more than 50% of monkeypox cases

Ghana News, International
The total confirmed cases of the monkeypox outbreak in Ghana is now 34 with the cases recorded in six regions. More than 50 percent of cases are in the Greater Accra Region. The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said Greater Accra, Ashanti, Bono, Bono East, Eastern and Upper West are the regions where the cases have been identified. The monkeypox outbreak was Saturday (July 23, 2022) declared a global Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization (WHO). The classification is the highest alert that the WHO can issue and follows a worldwide upsurge in cases. It came at the end of the second meeting of the WHO's emergency committee on the virus. Ghana cases The last confirme...
Monkeypox: WHO declares highest alert over outbreak

Monkeypox: WHO declares highest alert over outbreak

International
The monkeypox outbreak has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization. The classification is the highest alert that the WHO can issue and follows a worldwide upsurge in cases. It came at the end of the second meeting of the WHO's emergency committee on the virus. More than 16,000 cases have now been reported from 75 countries, said WHO director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. There had been five deaths so far as a result of the outbreak, he added. There are only two other such health emergencies at present - the coronavirus pandemic and the continuing effort to eradicate polio. Dr Tedros said the emergency committee had been unable to reach a consensus on whether the monkeypox outbreak should be classified as a global health emergency...
WHO to convene on June 23 to decide if monkeypox presents health emergency

WHO to convene on June 23 to decide if monkeypox presents health emergency

Ghana News, International, Science & Technology
The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has announced he would convene an emergency committee meeting on Thursday, June 23 to assess the implication of the outbreak of the monkeypox virus. He says the committee will be tasked to determine “whether this outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern.” Mr. Ghebreyesus explained that the decision to convene the committee is also due to a recent “unusual” behaviour shown by the virus as it keeps spreading in countries beyond Africa. https://youtu.be/cWK-rYCkGOU “We believe that it needs also some coordinated response because of the geographic spread.” In a press briefing on Tuesday, June 14, he added that the Organisation is working with experts to offic...
5 cases of monkeypox confirmed in Ghana

5 cases of monkeypox confirmed in Ghana

Ghana News, International
Five cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in the Eastern, Western and Greater Accra regions, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) says. One of the cases was recorded in a Ghanaian who travelled to the United States of America from Ghana. According to the Director-General of the Service, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the cases were identified through the testing of 12 suspected cases, including one case that was reported from the Western Region. “I am sure of late we have had a lot of discussions on social media on monkeypox, and I think the most popular one was the one from the Western Region. That was negative; we tested and it was negative. “So far, since the outbreak, we’ve tested 12 suspected cases in Ghana since May 24, 2022. Currently, we have confirmed five cases in thre...
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