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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 ...
How dangerous is it? Some outbreaks of clade I mpox have killed up to 10% of people who get sick, ... Broader international spread is a key reason why mpox has been declared a global health ...
why is mpox an emergency again? Two years ago, the WHO declared mpox was an emergency when a form of the disease, clade IIb, began to spread globally, largely among men who have sex with men.
Concerns are mounting about a type of mpox spreading across Africa that’s believed to cause more serious illness. ... Climate change added 41 days of dangerous heat around world in 2024 ...
Mpox (/ ˈ ɛ m p ɒ k s /, EM-poks; formerly known as monkeypox) [6] is an infectious viral disease that can occur in humans and other animals. Symptoms include a rash that forms blisters and then crusts over, fever, and swollen lymph nodes .
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. ... because mpox is especially dangerous to ...
The monkeypox virus is a zoonotic virus belonging to the genus Orthopoxvirus, which itself is a member of the family Poxviridae (also known as the poxvirus family). [9] Of note, the Orthopoxvirus genus includes the variola virus that prior to eradication via the advent of the smallpox vaccine, was the cause of the infectious human disease known as smallpox. [10]
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]