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African countries see payoff from ramped-up mpox strategies

Lisa Schnirring

Some of the key steps have included deployment of more community health workers and decentralized lab testing.

More than 600 dead in spreading DR Congo mpox outbreak as Republic of Congo reports its first cases

Mary Van Beusekom

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.

Mpox spread via nonsexual contact not common, new data show

Stephanie Soucheray

Another mpox study today showed that dose-sparing vaccine administration of the Jynneos vaccine appeared to have worked.

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More US adults willing to receive mpox vaccine now than in 2022

Mary Van Beusekom

Quick takes: Mpox outbreak in Malawi, more H5N1 in Idaho and California dairy cows

Lisa Schnirring

Mpox activity escalates in Uganda as vaccine shipments to Africa pass 1 million doses

Lisa Schnirring

Switzerland confirms clade 1b mpox as Hong Kong issues warning

Stephanie Soucheray

UK reports clade 1b mpox case with no travel history or links to earlier cases

Lisa Schnirring

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Monkeypox case count drops to 71

(CIDRAP News) – The number of possible human monkeypox cases dropped in the past week as investigators ruled out 11 cases while confirming three, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today.

Monkeypox confirmed in imported African rodents

(CIDRAP News) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today it has confirmed monkeypox in six rodents from a shipment of African mammals that is believed to be the source of the current monkeypox outbreak in the United States.