Though the surge in Sierra Leone has received much of the attention, cases are also rising in two other countries in West Africa: Ghana and Liberia.
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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In DRC hot spots, vaccination will target the greater community, not just contacts. A trial of the antiviral drug brincidofovir also launched in the country.
The ECDC says there have been 11 cases in Europe since August 2024, all mild.
The index patient had been in the DR Congo, and related infections were reported in 4 contacts.
The patient hadn't traveled to Central Africa but was a contact of two people who did.
Pakistan and Oman reported recent imported clade 1 mpox cases, both linked to UAE travel.
The survey of adults in 6 African nations finds 33% are reluctant to receive the mpox vaccine and 39% of parents are reluctant to have their children vaccinated.
The FDA upgraded a voluntary recall of organic, pasture-raised eggs sold by Costco stores to Class I, the agency's highest risk level, over Salmonella concerns.
Belgium reported the case on December 18 in an adult traveler returning from an African country where the clade 1b virus circulates.
Two African countries reported more circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 cases.
Africa CDC shared findings from a review of the response and said doses of the LC16 vaccine from Japan will arrive this week.
