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China Predicts Windfall from Selling Monkeypox Test Kits

China-based diagnostic test makers expect to profit considerably from the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) recent decision to declare monkeypox a “public health emergency,” as the W.H.O. requested mass orders of monkeypox testing kits from at least two such manufacturers shortly after the declaration, China’s state-run Global Times reported on Tuesday.

Health workers screen passengers arriving from abroad for Monkeypox symptoms at Anna Inter

World Health Organization Revives Wuhan Lab Coronavirus Theory After China Calls Tedros ‘Irresponsible’

A World Health Organization (W.H.O.) advisory group published a report on Thursday urging the U.N. agency and international public health experts to further investigate if the Chinese coronavirus pandemic originated with an accident at a research laboratory, reviving a widely derided theory that the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) could have contributed to the pandemic.

COVID Lab Origin Gain of Function

Report: W.H.O. Asia Chief Fostered Culture of Racism, ‘Systemic Bullying’

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) staffers based at the organization’s Western Pacific headquarters in Manila recently accused the region’s W.H.O. chief, Takeshi Kasai, of blaming a rise in coronavirus cases in some Asian countries on their populations’ “lack of capacity due to their inferior culture, race and socioeconomic level,” the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday.

FILE – World Health Organization Regional Director for Western Pacific Takeshi Kasai add