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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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.
Africa CDC said African countries are seeing a replay of COVID-19 vaccine deployment.
The changes target racist and stigmitizing language surrounding a term that came into use in 1970.
Data that are not yet peer-reviewed indicate that a single Jynneos vaccine dose provides 78% protection against monkeypox 14 days or more after vaccination.
Researchers found no evidence of disease spread in Dutch sexual networks of men who have sex with men before May.
As much as 25% of infections in women are not linked to sexual transmission, new data show.
