The pause, which could affect disease surveillance, is due to the CDC’s ongoing review of its testing efficacy.
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 57 hospitalized patients with severe manifestations, most were Black men with AIDS.
Vaccine receipt proportions more than doubled in Black people and increased almost 50% in Hispanic groups.
"In general little increase in MPXV neutralization was observed after the second dose."
The findings add more evidence of potential sexual transmission of the virus.
Four of 5 patients with ocular monkeypox required hospital care, and 1 had marked vision impairment.
Nearly three of four US high school students report one or more adverse experiences contributing to poor mental health and suicidal behaviors amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey published today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
COVID-19 vaccination may protect pregnant women and their fetuses against virus-related placentitis (inflammation of the placenta) and stillbirth, concludes a review study published today in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. The research will also be presented next week at ID Week in Washington, DC.
The researchers were able to isolate infectious virus from 2 samples, including an air sample.
Of 219 patients, 216 (99%) reported sexual or close intimate contact in the 21 days before symptom onset.
Disparities still persist in disease burden, as well as monkeypox vaccine reach.
