Many of the problems in the mpox response were due to a deflated and exhausted public health workforce across the country.
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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Data that are not yet peer-reviewed indicate that a single Jynneos vaccine dose provides 78% protection against monkeypox 14 days or more after vaccination.
Researchers found no evidence of disease spread in Dutch sexual networks of men who have sex with men before May.
As much as 25% of infections in women are not linked to sexual transmission, new data show.
A study of 2,126 vaccine recipients identifies 10 cardiac events that all had alternative explanations, and no hospitalizations.
New data show that 32% of US cases have been in Black people, 31% in Hispanics, and 30% in White people.
At a World Health Organization (WHO) briefing today, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said Uganda's government is making progress in its battle against Ebola, but he raised concerns about case detections outside the main hot spots.
Black children made up 47% of the 83 pediatric patients, with Latinos making up 35%.
Data show 53% of infections are transmitted 1 to 4 days before symptoms appear.
A new study published in eClinicalMedicine analyzed 19 studies on monkeypox, which included 7,553 reported cases, among which there were 555 hospitalizations. The meta-analysis suggests monkeypox patients have a 14.1% hospitalization rate.
The World Health Organization (WHO) monkeypox emergency committee met for the third time on Oct 20 to discuss the latest developments, concluding that the situation still warrants a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).