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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Previous cases in Europe had travel ties to endemic regions.
Also, the WHO highlights more local transmission of clade 1b in multiple countries.
At eight months of follow-up, Jynneos recipients not vaccinated against smallpox had lower binding antibody concentrations than those with infection.
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.
