How vaccine skeptics use storytelling effectively to create powerful but medically inaccurate messaging
As long as there have been vaccines, there have been people who doubted their science and safety.
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Complex Mixtures: News and Research on Smallpox Vaccine
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Mpox immune test validated during Rwandan outbreak
An antibody test for the infectious disease mpox was successfully developed during the new clade 1b outbreak in Rwanda, the first time that an assay of its kind has been validated within this setting. The test, an IgG ELISA ...
Mar 9, 2026
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Africa no longer facing mpox emergency: regional health chief
Africa is no longer in the grip of a public health emergency over mpox though the viral infection "remains endemic in several settings," the head of region's disease monitoring centers said Saturday.
Jan 24, 2026
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Hidden mpox exposure detected in healthy Nigerian adults, revealing under-recognized transmission
The mpox virus appears to be circulating silently in parts of Nigeria, in many cases without the symptoms typically associated with the disease, according to new research led by scientists from the University of Cambridge ...
Jan 20, 2026
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LGBTQ-friendly states led US in mpox vaccination uptake, study shows
U.S. states with stronger LGBTQ+ equality laws saw significantly higher mpox vaccination rates during the 2022–2023 epidemic compared to states with weaker protections, according to a study by CUNY SPH researchers published ...
Sep 18, 2025
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Vaccinating children for mpox would significantly reduce deaths in the DRC, say researchers
Vaccinating children under five-years-old in endemic mpox regions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) would significantly reduce the number of deaths in the country, according to an analysis by researchers at the ...
Oct 25, 2024
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Third of Burundi mpox cases in children under five: UN
Youngsters have been especially impacted by mpox outbreaks raging in Africa, with children under five accounting for nearly a third of the cases in Burundi, the UN children's agency said Friday.
Sep 20, 2024
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Mpox vaccines: Where they come from and what stands in the way of distributing them in Africa
The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization (WHO) have declared the latest outbreak of mpox in Africa a health emergency. An epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spread ...
Aug 29, 2024
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Smallpox vaccination in childhood could offer protection against monkeypox clade II viruses, study finds
A study by co-authors from the ECDC, WHO and national public health institutes in four European countries, and published in Eurosurveillance, has found that prior smallpox vaccination in childhood could protect against infections ...
Aug 23, 2024
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Q&A: Mpox declared a public health emergency of international concern—now what?
On Aug. 14, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the latest mpox outbreak in Africa a public health emergency of international concern. While the virus is not new, its behavior warrants vigilance and raises critical ...
Aug 20, 2024
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