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Though mpox has been a public health threat for years, in spring 2022 the disease spread much farther than previously and in many non-endemic nations, creating a broader crisis involving thousands of cases. Public health responded with vaccination efforts, guidance on disease detection and risk reduction, and other steps. The disease is caused by an orthopoxvirus and is in the same family as smallpox.

Severe form of mpox may be fatal in 15% of people with advanced HIV

Mary Van Beusekom

Severe complications included necrotizing (flesh-eating) skin lesions, lung dysfunction sometimes accompanied by nodules, and secondary infections and sepsis.

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Monkeypox lesions on arm and torso

Household contact, sex among risk factors in monkeypox cases in kids, teens

Stephanie Soucheray | News Reporter | CIDRAP News

Black children made up 47% of the 83 pediatric patients, with Latinos making up 35%.

Study suggests substantial before-symptom spread of monkeypox

Stephanie Soucheray

Data show 53% of infections are transmitted 1 to 4 days before symptoms appear.

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WHO reports mpox decline in most regions, but more deaths

Lisa Schnirring

Study finds most mpox videos on TikTok are incomplete, inaccurate

Chris Dall

1-dose Jynneos vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic mpox estimated at 78%

Mary Van Beusekom

8.5 days elapse between successive mpox cases, study estimates

Mary Van Beusekom

WHO says it will maintain global health emergency for mpox

Chris Dall

One dose of Jynneos mpox vaccine 86% effective, study suggests

Mary Van Beusekom
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Monkeypox case count drops to 71

(CIDRAP News) – The number of possible human monkeypox cases dropped in the past week as investigators ruled out 11 cases while confirming three, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today.

 

Monkeypox confirmed in imported African rodents

(CIDRAP News) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today it has confirmed monkeypox in six rodents from a shipment of African mammals that is believed to be the source of the current monkeypox outbreak in the United States.