Rather than relying on reported cases, monitoring populations through blood testing is important for understanding how it spreads and for guiding targeted vaccination.
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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Bisexual men were less likely to report mpox vaccination than gay men.
Kids are the most affected group in the DRC's mpox outbreak, and their exposure is coming from household contacts and small animals.
Cases so far this year are triple the same period last year, and the WHO said more outbreak resources are needed, including access to vaccines.
Only 1 of 109 mpox cases was tied to workplace exposure, likely from a sharps injury.
The step paves the way for the vaccine to be given at a broader range of sites, including doctors offices and pharmacies.
Swedish and Dutch studies find, however, that antibody levels remain high in people who had previously had smallpox vaccines.
Mpox spread is occurring alongside a refugee crisis, internal violence, and a host of other disease outbreaks.
By the end of November 2022, Florida had recorded 2,845 confirmed or probable mpox cases.
For women, the estimated sample case hospitalization risk was 18%, compared with 5% for men, but the authors noted 'considerable' uncertainty because of the small number of cases in women.
The epi investigation revealed that many of the patients were young women involved in sex work.
