Tag: <span>health emergency</span>

By Helen Branswell Aug. 4, 2022 Reprints Colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox virus particles (teal) cultivated and purified from cell culture.NIAID The Biden administration declared the ongoing monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency on Thursday, a move that comes amid growing case counts and a groundswell of criticism over the way the administration has...

By Helen Branswell  July 23, 2022 Colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox virus particles. NIAID The World Health Organization on Saturday declared the unprecedented monkeypox outbreak that has spread around the world a public health emergency, a decision that will empower the agency to take additional measures to try to curb the virus’s spread. In an unusual...