Category: Monkeypox
China reports a five-fold increase in mpox cases; 96% patients are male
WION As per a statement by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 96 percent of the patients were male and reported sexual activity with another man. As per the Chinese CDC, while in June the cases stood at 106, in July, the count reached a high of 491. However, as per a Bloomberg […]
Aug 15, 2023
The doctor who warned the world of the mpox outbreak of 2022 is still worried
NPR A little over a year ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic was still a public health emergency, a little-known virus came seemingly out of nowhere to add to the world’s worries – a virus known at the time as monkeypox. Monkeypox – since renamed mpox following criticisms that the name held misleading and racist connotations – went […]
Jul 5, 2023
Vaccination and awareness could help keep mpox in check this summer
NPR A dozen people came down with mpox in Chicago around early May, prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to warn doctors of a potential mpox resurgence. To those that were watching mpox closely, the increase in U.S. cases wasn’t a surprise. New cases had been recently reported in Europe, and U.S. health officials had been […]
Jun 6, 2023
Mpox Outbreak Risk Remains in 2023
Precision Vaccinations The U.S. CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Podcast Briefing, published today, offers an overview of the latest scientific information regarding mpox vaccinations. This podcast discusses three MMWR reports as of the week of May 15, 2023. First, although the number of mpox cases has decreased since the peak of the U.S. outbreak in August 2022, the […]
May 30, 2023
Monkeypox, now known as mpox, showing signs of return
Washington Post It’s time for gay and bisexual men to pay attention to mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, again. That’s the message from public health authorities and LGBT health providers as cases rise in some countries and small clusters of infections in vaccinated people have been detected in Chicago and France. The World Health Organization on May 11 said mpox […]
May 16, 2023
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