Hermano Rocha, MD, PhD DISCLOSURES | November 12, 2024 A recent webinar held by the World Health Organization (WHO) discussed safety guidance for patients and healthcare professionals involved in treating mpox cases. Speakers included Victoria Willet from the WHO’s health emergencies program, Andy Bulabula, a senior infection prevention and control technician at the Africa Centers for Disease Control and...
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A more severe form of mpox has been reported in US
by Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The United States has reported its first confirmed case of the more contagious form of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox. ADVERTISING The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week issued a health advisory, stating that while the country’s risk for the more severe form...
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First U.S. case of new mpox strain detected in California
California has detected the country’s first case of a new mpox strain that is spreading from person to person, STAT’s Helen Branswell reports . The infected individual had recently traveled from Eastern Africa, where multiple countries are battling transmission of this virus. The version of the virus the person is infected with is known as clade...
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Mpox vaccine is safe and generates a robust antibody response in adolescents
NIH clinical trial addresses knowledge gap on vaccine use in adolescent populations Reports and Proceedings NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases image: Colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox virus particles (light green) found within VERO E6 cells (teal). The virus particles are in various stages of maturity, which accounts for differences in shape. Captured...
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Study demonstrates that mpox vaccine antibody responses wane within a year
Mpox Virus Particle Colorized transmission electron micrograph of an mpox virus particle (yellow and red) found within an infected VERO E6 cell (blue), cultured in the laboratory. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID/CC0 Public Domain A study led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...
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Healthcare workers unprepared for mpox outbreak due to knowledge gaps and vaccine inequity
By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D. Aug 27 2024 Study: International healthcare workers’ experiences and perceptions of the 2022 multi-country mpox outbreak. Image Credit: Corona Borealis Studio / Shutterstock *Important notice: medRxiv publishes preliminary scientific reports that are not peer-reviewed and, therefore, should not be regarded as conclusive, guide clinical practice/health-related behavior, or treated as...
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WHO has declared mpox a global health emergency. What happens next?
August 15, 2024 by C Raina MacIntyre, The Conversation Credit: CC0 Public DomainThe World Health Organization (WHO) has declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern, after rising cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the potential for further spread. This now triggers a coordinated international response to an extraordinary event and...
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Mpox is still circulating among U.S. gay men, report warns
JUNE 7, 2024 Though not at numbers seen in the 2022 outbreak, mpox cases are still circulating in the United States, largely among gay and bisexual men, new government data shows. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the outbreak of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) viral illness in the United States...
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Researchers find evidence of mpox circulating in humans since 2016
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Estimating the time of MPXV emergence into the human population from the accumulation of APOBEC3-type mutations. (A) MPXV genomes sampled from human infections from 2017 to 2022, with an outgroup sequence from an outbreak in Nigeria in 1971 Mutations along each branch are indicated with circles colored by whether...
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Previous smallpox vaccine provides immunity to mpox
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET Vaccines against smallpox given until the mid-1970s offer continuing cross-reactive immunity to mpox (previously known as monkeypox), researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden report in a study published in the scientific journal Cell Host & Microbe. During last year’s mpox outbreak, the virus spread for the first time outside Africa, causing over 85,000 cases...