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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Though the findings are promising, researchers are still examining the benefits and drawbacks of the one-dose strategy.
The CDC recorded 466 mpox infections in transgender and gender-diverse adults, which made up 1.7% of adult cases.
The guidance also officially replaces all WHO mentions of "monkeypox" with "mpox," the new official name of the virus.
The disease has historically been defined via household contact, or animal-to-human contact via the ingestion of bushmeat.
The study highlights how easily the disease was misdiagnosed during the initial months of a global outbreak.
Of 58 tattoo parlor customers, 21 (36%) became infected with the virus, and 9 were children.
A Spanish study offers insight as to how and when semen may be able to transmit the virus, as well as viral shedding from lesions.
Three men contracted mpox and then developed myocarditis a few days after their initial symptoms.
Many mpox infections have been reported in healthcare workers, but only a few were due to occupational exposure.
Studies describe mpox in 158 women and 5 cases of severe disease following Jynneos vaccination.
