LOS ANGELES, Aug 11 — Confirmed monkeypox cases in the United States have exceeded the mark of 10,000, reaching 10,392 cases Wednesday, according to the newest data released by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the country's national public health agency, reported Xinhua.

NEW YORK, Aug 10 — The US story of monkeypox feels to experts frustratingly like a replay of the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Xinhua quoted a USA Today report last week.

BANGKOK, Aug 5 — A 22-year old Thai woman has tested positive for monkeypox, Thailand’s first monkeypox case in a woman.

REUTERS, Aug 5 — The United States has declared monkeypox a public health emergency, the health secretary said on Thursday, a move expected to free up additional funding and tools to fight the disease.

TOKYO, July 30 — To prevent monkeypox, an expert panel of Japan's health ministry on Friday approved the use of a smallpox vaccine made by KM Biologics Co, based in the southwestern city of Kumamoto.

BANGKOK, July 29 — Thailand reported a second monkeypox case - a 47-year-old Thai man, Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said.

LONDON, July 28 — There have been more than 18,000 cases of monkeypox reported globally from 78 countries, with the majority in Europe, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 26 — Early preparations made by the Ministry of Health (MOH) in dealing with the increase in cases of Covid-19 and the spread of monkeypox infections in the country will not likely require another Movement Control Order (MCO) or border controls to be imposed, says National Recovery Council (MPN) chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

PUTRAJAYA, July 25 — A total of nine cases of suspected monkeypox had been notified to the Health Ministry as of July 23, and all of them had been confirmed negative, said Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.

BANGKOK, July 24 — Thailand’s first monkeypox patient who had gone missing in the resort island of Phuket  was found in Phnom Penh on Saturday.

ROME, July 24 — Italy has confirmed a total of more than 400 monkeypox cases, the country’s Health Ministry Prevention Director General Gianni Rezza said after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the current disease outbreak a public health emergency.

REUTERS, July 23 — The rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak represents a global health emergency, the World Health Organization's highest level of alert, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on today.

LARUT, July 23 — The government yesterday approved the adoption of the Tracking Refugees Information System (TRIS) on all United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) cardholders in Malaysia.

BANGKOK, July 22 — Thailand has confirmed its first case of monkeypox – a 27-year-old Nigerian who travelled from Nigeria to Phuket.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 15 — Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin confirmed that so far no Malaysian pilgrims in Saudi Arabia have been infected with monkeypox.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 — The Health Ministry (MOH) today confirmed one case of monkeypox involving a Malaysian residing in Singapore, which was detected on Wednesday.

SINGAPORE, July 7 — Singapore has confirmed one local case of monkeypox infection in Singapore involving a 45-year-old male Malaysian who resides in the republic.

PARIS, July 5 — The Dutch health institute RIVM has reported the country's first case of a minor contracting monkeypox as the outbreak of the viral disease endemic to Africa continues to spread across Europe, reported Sputnik.

BRUSSELS, June 29 — The first batch of 5,300 vaccine doses against monkeypox purchased by the European Commission's Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) was delivered to Spain on Tuesday, a Commission spokesperson has said.

GENEVA, June 24 — Amid reports of surging cases in Europe, a special committee of the World Health Organisation (WHO) began meeting Thursday to decide whether monkeypox should be declared a global “public health emergency.” The emergency committee will advise the WHO chief “on whether the event...