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Corona Borealis Studio / Shutterstock *Important notice: medRxiv publishes preliminary scientific reports that are not peer-reviewed and, therefore, should not be regarded as conclusive, guide clinical practice/health-related behavior, or treated as...
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...
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...
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...
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...
