Fighting has upended lab testing and sent mpox patients fleeing from treatment centers back into the community.
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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Supporting factors included a high disease burden, accelerating spread, a concerning death rate, lack of diagnostics and vaccines, and a need for better coordination among countries.
The group meets on August 14 to assess the emerging complex situation in the African region.
Only 5% of Americans are worried about contracting mpox in the next 3 months.
The European region has so far reported 19 imported Oropouche virus infections, and the virus has recently been linked to severe fetal outcomes.
Though the risk remains very low, the CDC and state partners continue to look for the clade, including in wastewater samples.
As a novel clade spreads to the DRC's neighbors, it and other African countries are battling outbreaks involving two earlier clades.
Over the weekend South Africa said it now has 22 cases of the virus.
Some of the cases have been caused by what researchers are calling "clade 1b," a new mpox lineage identified in the DR Congo last year that is highly transmissible.
The trial will also assess if vaccinated individuals who contract mpox have more mild courses of illness.
The team arrived at 6 target pathogens: the viruses that cause polio, influenza A, influenza B, mpox, COVID-19, and measles.