National Hog Farmer Endemic in sub-Saharan Africa, the 2022 outbreak with a clade IIb strain has resulted in ongoing sustained transmission of the virus worldwide. An article co-authored by the Director of the Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases and the Center on Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases reports on findings concerning the transmission and susceptibility of the Mpox virus in a domestic livestock species.
The article was co-authored by Dr. Juergen A. Richt, Regents and University Distinguished Professor at Kansas State University and director of CEEZAD and CEZID. It was published in the Dec. 13 edition of Emerging Microbes And Infections.