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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
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 ...
A new, potentially more dangerous strain of mpox, the virus formerly known as monkeypox, has been reported in California.. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has reported the first ...
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 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.
And the mpox tests most commonly used in the U.S. don’t distinguish between the two subtypes of the virus, making it hard to know whether clade I has arrived, Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious ...
Myth: The mpox vaccine is widely available to anyone. Fact: There is a vaccine that can prevent mpox, but t he CDC recommends that only certain people who are at high risk should get it.