The pause, which could affect disease surveillance, is due to the CDC’s ongoing review of its testing efficacy.
The test the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses to identify clade I mpox cases is 'most likely not reliable' for detection of the substrain identified in the study, the authors say.
Another mpox study today showed that dose-sparing vaccine administration of the Jynneos vaccine appeared to have worked.
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Senegal's Rift Valley fever outbreak now has 302 confirmed cases.
While the risk to the general public is low, men who have sex with men are at moderate risk, authorities say.
The 3 recent cases are unrelated, but the fact that all 3 people had not traveled internationally indicates that local person-to-person spread is likely.
The county announced the detection yesterday, and it involves an adult with no recent travel to mpox-endemic areas.
The clade 1 case is the nation's first in a person with no recent travel history and the seventh clade 1 case in the country.
Rift Valley fever cases are rising in both people and animals in Senegal and Mauritania.
Whooping cough cases in Florida have risen by 81% this year compared with 2024.
The immune response in children aged 2 to 11 years was non-inferior to that observed in adults, and 2.5-times greater in children aged 2 to 5.
Africa CDC also notes cholera surges in Chad, Burundi, and Angola, along with hopeful signs in the DR Congo's Ebola outbreak.
The vaccine campaign targeting almost 2 million people in Darfur region faces daunting access and transportation challenges amid ongoing conflict.
