People in many countries are contracting monkeypox, even though they have not traveled to any regions where the virus is mainly circulating. The World Health Organization (WHO) therefore classifies monkeypox as a public health ...
Nov 22, 2022
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UK public health officials on Tuesday said the monkeypox vaccine was 78 percent effective, urging men who have sex with men to take up the jab.
Nov 22, 2022
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The US drugs agency has approved a test by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche that can detect monkeypox, the company said on Wednesday.
Nov 16, 2022
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A large contact tracing investigation of a patient with monkeypox virus (MPXV) infection found no secondary cases in community or health care settings. The creation of a framework for assessing specific risk scenarios permitted ...
Nov 7, 2022
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Monkeypox has infected more than 77,000 people in more than 100 countries worldwide, and—similar to COVID-19—mutations have enabled the virus to grow stronger and smarter, evading antiviral drugs and vaccines in its mission ...
Nov 4, 2022
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A UK study published by The BMJ today has found evidence for "substantial" monkeypox transmission before symptoms appear or are detected (known as pre-symptomatic transmission).
Nov 2, 2022
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Children aged 8 years or younger should be considered a group at high risk for more severe monkeypox disease, reports The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, the official journal of The European Society for Paediatric ...
Oct 28, 2022
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The ongoing global monkeypox outbreak is mainly affecting gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in countries where the virus has previously not been endemic. One approach to control the outbreak could be ...
Oct 20, 2022
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A clinical trial to evaluate the antiviral drug tecovirimat, also known as TPOXX, in adults and children with monkeypox has begun in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The trial will evaluate the drug's safety and ...
Oct 13, 2022
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The global outbreak of monkeypox has been going on for nearly five months now. In that time, over 60,000 people have been infected in over 100 countries. Most of the cases have been in young men and the disease has disproportionately ...
Sep 23, 2022
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