Category: Monkeypox
Rise of mpox cases in Chicago raises concern about possible summer spread
NBC News Diagnosed cases have been “increasing slightly” in eight countries the past three weeks, some in vaccinated people, the World Health Organization said. A recent uptick in mpox diagnoses in Chicago, some of them in people vaccinated against the virus, has raised concerns about a possible increase in cases among gay and bisexual men […]
May 9, 2023
Case studies expose deadly risk of mpox to people with untreated HIV
(Science) Analysis of hundreds of mpox patients suggests it is “a different disease” in those with compromised immune systems In June 2022, a young man in his 30s severely sick with mpox, the viral disease formerly known as monkeypox, was admitted to the Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrition hospital in Mexico […]
Feb 21, 2023
NCDC reports 763 Monkeypox cases, as Lassa fever kills 53 in January
(The Nation) Nigeria has recorded 763 (501 male, 261 female) confirmed cases of Monkeypox diseases from 34 states and Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as of January 1, 2023, according to the latest epidemiological data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC). Of the states with the cases of Monkeypox in the country, […]
Feb 14, 2023
Planning for Mpox on a College Campus: A Model-Based Decision-Support Tool
(Annals of Internal Medicine) In spring and summer 2022, an outbreak of mpox occurred worldwide, largely confined to men who have sex with men (MSM). There was concern that mpox could break swiftly into congregate settings and populations with high levels of regular frequent physical contact, like university campus communities. Objective: To estimate the likelihood […]
Jan 31, 2023
Suffering Endures on the Other Side of the Mpox Curve
(MedPageToday) OPINION At the height of the outbreak, many of the patients we saw with mpox at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue — the city’s main public hospital where I lead our group of infectious disease physicians — came from similar backgrounds. They were undocumented, gig economy workers who were uninsured or underinsured, non-English speaking, with […]
Dec 13, 2022
Where Did All the Monkeypox Go?
(MedPageToday) Testing, vaccination (Jynneos), treatment (tecovirimat, Tpoxx), community cooperation, and a mass targeted communications campaign that was particularly aimed towards LGBTQ+ communities slowed the virus such that the mpox epidemiology (epi) curve has returned to where it was in June. The Biden administration announced last week that mpox will no longer have health emergency status after January.
Dec 6, 2022
WHO Issues New Name for Monkeypox
(MedPageToday) Monkeypox has been renamed mpox in order reduce stigmatization and racism associated with the name, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced. While the process of changing the name of a virus would normally take a couple of years, the process was accelerated in this case. Mpox will enter ICD-10 online within days as a synonym […]
Nov 29, 2022
The Monkeypox Cases That Might Have Been Missed
(NYT) Despite monkeypox fading from public attention, scientists are still learning how it spreads — including without sexual contact or any symptoms. In the monkeypox outbreak that unspooled this summer in the United States and dozens of other countries, men who have sex with men were the most at risk. But thousands of women were […]
Nov 22, 2022
Why It Was Easier to Curb Monkeypox Than Covid
(NYT) The city has pulled back its monkeypox vaccination vans as the number of cases dropped sharply. A dangerous virus, monkeypox, arrived in New York City in May, shortly before the World Health Organization declared it a “public health emergency of international concern.” That designation that had been in effect for only two other diseases, […]
Nov 21, 2022
Here’s How We Defeated Monkeypox and What It Means for the Next Pandemic
(Daily Beast) Five months after the world’s health agencies first sounded the alarm over a rare global outbreak of monkeypox, a sometimes fatal viral disease that’s normally endemic only in West and Central Africa, there’s finally some good news. The leading vaccines are working. Vulnerable populations—especially men who have sex with men—are getting jabbed at a healthy […]
Nov 1, 2022