Some of the key steps have included deployment of more community health workers and decentralized lab testing.
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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Local adverse event rates were highest following intradermal vaccine administration.
Africa has had a 7.4% case increase, with 111 new infections in the most recent 2 weeks.
How much of a role HIV status has on mpox progression and as an independent risk factor for contracting the virus is unknown.
Nine mpox patients had new skin or mucosal lesions after completing the 14-day Tpoxx treatment course.
Activity is rising in the Western Pacific due to local transmission in Japan, South Korea, and China.
No transmission was noted in encampments, despite potential sharing of sleeping bags, clothes, and utensils.
Since the WHO's last update on March 30, countries have reported 206 new cases and 4 deaths, with all the new deaths in the Americas.
Overall, between May and December of 2022, mpox incidence in Black and Hispanic males was higher than in their White counterparts.
Only 17.1% of the US population live within 15 minutes of a vaccination site, and 50% live more than an hour away.
The proportion of cases in vaccinated patients was much higher than the previous 4 months.
