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Recent pandemic viruses, including SAR-CoV-2, spread directly to people without adaptation, researchers say

Mary Van Beusekom

The findings provide further evidence against the COVID-19 lab-leak hypothesis.

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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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Quick takes: Clade 1 mpox in NYC, cruise ship norovirus outbreak, avian flu case in Cambodia

Stephanie Soucheray

Analysis suggests rope squirrels are a natural reservoir of mpox virus

Mary Van Beusekom

Mpox antibodies wane 2 years after infection or vaccination, study finds

Laine Bergeson

Spain reports first known human-to-human mpox clade 1b transmission outside Africa

Laine Bergeson

Quick takes: More Rift Valley fever in Senegal, mpox clade 1b threat, avian flu on California duck farm

Stephanie Soucheray
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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.

 

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