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In race for monkeypox vaccines, experts see repeat of COVID 07/30/2022 10:53am • LONDON (AP) — Moves by rich countries to buy large quantities of monkeypox vaccine, while declining to share doses with Africa, could leave millions of people unprotected against a more dangerous version of the disease and risk continued spillovers of the virus into humans, public health officials NKorea claims no new fever cases amid doubts over COVID data 07/30/2022 05:53am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Saturday reported no new fever cases for the first time since it abruptly admitted to its first domestic COVID-19 outbreak and placed its 26 million people under more draconian restrictions in May. There have been widespread outside doubts about the accu California not ready to declare emergency over monkeypox 07/29/2022 09:12pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California officials are pressing for more vaccine and acting with “utmost urgency” to slow the spread of the monkeypox virus, but they have not decided whether to declare a statewide emergency as the city of San Francisco announced on Thursday, the state's public hea US rules out summer COVID boosters to focus on fall campaign 07/29/2022 04:13pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators said Friday they are no longer considering authorizing a second COVID-19 booster shot for all adults under 50 this summer, focusing instead on revamped vaccines for the fall that will target the newest viral subvariants. Pfizer and Moderna expect to have update Spain registers monkeypox death; media say it's a first 07/29/2022 04:02pm • MADRID (AP) — Spain on Friday reported the death of a person from monkeypox, which Spanish media said was a first for the European Union nation. In its latest report on the virus, Spain’s Health Ministry said 120 people had been admitted to the hospital so far with monkeypox and one had died. S Navajos narrow list of 15 presidential hopefuls in primary 07/29/2022 12:27pm • FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Natalia Sells has a list of qualities she wants to see in the next Navajo Nation president: Approachable. Adaptable. Inspiring. Someone who upholds traditional values but also is progressive. She'll join thousands of other tribal members on Tuesday in casting their vote fo China backs away from growth goal, sticks to virus controls 07/29/2022 12:41am • BEIJING (AP) — China’s leaders effectively acknowledged the struggling economy won’t hit its official 5.5% growth target this year and said Thursday they will try to prop up sagging consumer demand but will stick to strict anti-COVID-19 tactics that disrupted manufacturing and trade. The annou Asian shares mostly higher after rally on Wall Street 07/29/2022 12:26am • TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher on Friday following a broad rally on Wall Street, but Hong Kong’s benchmark sank more than 2%. Investors appear to have grown more convinced that the Federal Reserve may temper its aggressive interest rate hikes aimed at taming inflation after the Co San Francisco declares emergency over monkeypox spread 07/28/2022 09:20pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The mayor of San Francisco announced a state of emergency Thursday over the growing number of monkeypox cases, allowing officials to cut through red tape and fight a public health crisis reminiscent of the AIDS epidemic that began devastating the city in the 1980s. “We are a DC adds new Monkeypox vaccine clinic in Ward 8 07/28/2022 08:30pm • D.C. is getting ready to open up its third monkeypox vaccination clinic — this time in Ward 8. The city will start distributing doses at the new location starting Monday and scheduling appointments at the clinic Thursday. D.C.'s health department said it is prioritizing first doses of the va Under fire, US officials say monkeypox can still be stopped 07/28/2022 06:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The country’s monkeypox outbreak can still be stopped, U.S. health officials said Thursday, despite rising case numbers and so far limited vaccine supplies. The Biden administration’s top health official pushed back against criticism about the pace of the response and worries If monkeypox spreads through sexual contact, is it an STD? 07/28/2022 05:07pm • NEW YORK (AP) — For most of the six decades that monkeypox has been known to affect people, it was not known as a disease that spreads through sex. Now that has changed. The current outbreak is by far the biggest involving the virus, and it's been designated a global emergency. So far, officials s After Biden COVID recovery, admin launches new booster push 07/28/2022 03:44pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration is launching a renewed push for COVID-19 booster shots for those eligible, pointing to the enhanced protections they offer against severe illness as the highly transmissible BA.5 variant spreads across the country. The initiatives include dire Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin says he tested positive for COVID 07/28/2022 10:35am • CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said he tested positive Thursday for COVID-19 and was in quarantine with what he described as minor symptoms. The No. 2 Senate Democrat, who said in a statement he was vaccinated and had received two coronavirus booster shots, planned to continue to Africa's alone in monkeypox deaths but has no vaccine doses 07/28/2022 07:03am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa still does not have a single dose of the monkeypox vaccine even though it’s the only continent to have documented deaths from the disease that’s newly declared a global emergency, its public health agency announced Thursday. “Let us get vaccines onto the continen