INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF THE CZECH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (IOCB PRAGUE) IMAGE: SINEFUNGIN AND SAH RECOGNITION BY THE MONKEYPOX VIRUS VP39 METHYLTRANSFERASE CREDIT: JAN SILHAN ET AL / IOCB PRAGUE Scientists from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry in Prague have deciphered the structure of the protein methyltransferase from the monkeypox...
GOETHE UNIVERSITY FRANKFURT Nitroxoline is the name of the new drug candidate that could potentially be used to treat mpox. It was identified by scientists at Goethe University and the University of Kent as part of a multi-site study. The results of their research will now allow clinical trials to begin soon. The current mpox outbreak is...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The US drugs agency has approved a test by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche that can detect monkeypox, the company said on Wednesday. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the green light for emergency use authorisation, Roche said in a statement, which makes it possible to accelerate the sale of drugs or...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain People with monkeypox can spread the virus up to four days before symptoms appear, with more than half of transmissions potentially taking place during this period, a UK study estimated Tuesday. While the findings have yet to be confirmed, they suggest that many monkeypox infections cannot be prevented by asking patients...
by University College London Colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox virus particles (red) cultivated and purified from cell culture. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID Monkeypox can sometimes lead to neurological complications such as encephalitis (brain inflammation), confusion or seizures, finds a new review of evidence...
by Kiffer George Card, The Conversation Monkeypox particles in an infected cell. Credit: NIAID, CC BY Monkeypox virus, or MPXV, is an emerging threat to public health. The World Health Organization recently declared the current outbreak a global public health emergency. For decades, several African countries have experienced ongoing outbreaks of MPXV, driven primarily by contact with animals and transmission...
by Jason Laughlin Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Philadelphia is seeing a rising number of monkeypox cases, as an outbreak that has now been declared a global health emergency spreads across the United States. Many basic questions about the virus remain unanswered, even to the people at highest risk of catching a virus: men who have...
Both San Francisco and New York state declared monkeypox a public health emergency on Thursday, as they struggle to gain access to more resources to help contain the spread of the virus. About 40 percent of the 4,907 monkeypox cases recorded in the United States have been diagnosed in California and New York. “This declaration...
ANNENBERG PUBLIC POLICY CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA IMAGE: WORRY ABOUT CONTRACTING MONKEYPOX OR COVID-19 OVER THE NEXT THREE MONTHS. ASKED OF 1,580 ADULTS ON THE ANNENBERG PUBLIC POLICY CENTER ASK SURVEY, JULY 12-18, 2022. CREDIT: ANNENBERG PUBLIC POLICY CENTER PHILADELPHIA – As Covid-19 cases surge across the United States dominated by a highly...
by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers at the National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge in Portugal, working with a colleague at Lusófona University, also in Portugal, has found that the monkeypox virus has been evolving at a faster rate than expected. In their paper published in the...
