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Misinformation about the monkeypox outbreak is spawning an epidemic of largely unfounded anxiety, experts say. Nearly 1 in 5 people in the U.S. are worried they will contract monkeypox, according ...
U.S. health officials have identified a cluster of cases caused by an mpox variant that are resistant to Siga Technologies' antiviral tecovirimat, branded as TPOXX, in five U.S. states, federal ...
The Swedish case is the first confirmed infection outside of Africa that is linked to the more contagious strain, NBC News reports. Types of monkeypox There are two types of mpox:
Monkeypox can spread from person to person through contact with the infectious rash, scabs or body fluids of someone who is infected with the virus, and the disease can also be transmitted via ...
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 (/ ˈ ɛ m p ɒ k s /, EM-poks; formerly known as monkeypox) [4] 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 illness is usually mild, and most infected individuals recover within a few weeks without treatment.
Phylogenomic characterization of the first monkeypox virus outbreak genome sequences, found the "presumably slow-evolving" DNA virus has evolved roughly 6–12-fold more mutations than one would expect and 15 SNP mutations since the beginning of the outbreak. [49] [50] Recombination has been reported in the natural transmission of monkeypox ...
Mpox (previously known as monkeypox) dominated headlines last summer, as the virus that causes distinct lesions slowly spread across the country—and the world.