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Shares in other companies involved in the mpox response have also swung wildly this week. SIGA Technologies jumped 7% on Friday, after falling nearly 20% a day earlier after its mpox drug failed ...
The first 10,000 mpox vaccines are finally due to arrive next week in Africa, where a dangerous new strain of the virus - which has afflicted people there for decades - has caused global alarm.
Broader international spread is a key reason why mpox has been declared a global health emergency, but the geographic pattern of the current outbreak is different than it was during the outbreak ...
An epidemic of a new variant of clade I mpox (formerly known as monkeypox), called clade 1b, [2] began in Central Africa at least as early as September 2023. [3] [4] As of September 2024, more than 29,000 cases have been reported, with over 800 fatalities (~3% fatality rate), [1] nearly all in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [5]
Mpox spreads through close, personal, often skin-to-skin contact. The disease can spread through direct contact with rashes, or body fluids from an infected person, by touching objects and fabrics that have been used by someone with mpox or through respiratory secretions. [22]
The CDC is ramping up surveillance for mpox in the U.S., as a deadlier form of the disease spreads rapidly through the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Deadly mpox outbreak abroad is a 'global ...
The WHO declared the recent outbreak of the disease a public health emergency after a new offshoot of the mpox virus, first identified in Democratic Republic of Congo, beg
An outbreak of human monkeypox (now known as mpox) began in May 2003 in the United States.By July, a total of 71 cases were found in six Midwestern states including Wisconsin (39 cases), Indiana (16), Illinois (12), Kansas (1), Missouri (2), and Ohio (1).