Category: Monkeypox
Bavarian Nordic reveals positive mpox vaccine trial data in children
Clinical Trials The trial involved 227 children and 224 adults, with the significant immune responses in children aged two to five years. Bavarian Nordic has announced encouraging topline results from a clinical trial assessing its MVA-BN mpox/smallpox vaccine in children aged between two and 11 years. The trial involved 460 participants across two cohorts, examining […]
Oct 8, 2025
Washington State: DOH detects clade I mpox in Pierce County wastewater
Pierce County Health Department On Sept. 24, 2025, Washington State Department of Health (DOH) and the University of Washington detected clade I mpox virus (also called monkeypox virus) in Pierce County wastewater. After consultation with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department is working with DOH to increase wastewater testing to […]
Sep 30, 2025
Mpox Still a Continental Emergency, Africa CDC Advisory Group Recommends
Africa CDC The Emergency Consultative Group (ECG), which advises the Director General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on mpox, has urged that the Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS) remain in place. Meeting on 2 September 2025 to review the outbreak and assess whether the emergency status should be lifted, the Group […]
Sep 24, 2025
Officials, doctors urge vaccination amid ‘concerning’ surge in Chicago mpox cases
Chicago Sun Times Three dozen cases were diagnosed in August, nearly twice as many compared to July. Health officials and physicians say the two-dose vaccine is the most effective preventive measure. Amid an increase in mpox cases, health officials and care providers are urging Chicago residents to get vaccinated. There have been 67 reported cases […]
Sep 24, 2025
IOM Expands Support to Contain Mpox Threat in West and Central Africa
IOM The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is ramping up its efforts to contain the spread of Mpox in West and Central Africa, reinforcing border health systems and ensuring that mobile and hard-to-reach communities are not left out of national and regional response plans. Working closely with government health authorities and international partners, IOM has […]
Sep 10, 2025
Whatever happened to mpox? Is it still a threat?
NPR In August 2024, the news came in quick succession. On Tuesday — Aug. 13, 2024 — Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared mpox a public health emergency of continental concern. The very next day, the World Health Organization followed suit elevating the mpox outbreak to its highest threat level. We published a […]
Sep 3, 2025
Senegal reports mpox case, patient in isolation
Reuters Senegal authorities said they had detected a case of mpox in a foreign man who arrived in the West African country last week. The health ministry said it was the first case it had detected this year. It was not immediately clear how many cases, if any, had been reported there before January. “The […]
Aug 27, 2025
Mount Sinai Breakthrough: Potent Antibodies Open Path to Mpox Therapies
Mt Sinai A team from the Microbiology Department at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has discovered three powerful monoclonal antibodies from a person who had previously been infected with mpox (formerly known as monkeypox). These antibodies, which target the viral protein A35, blocked viral spread in laboratory in vitro tests and, most […]
Aug 27, 2025
Inside the Red Zone: Sierra Leone’s terrifying mpox outbreak
Telegraph More than 5,000 have tested positive – including children – and at least 47 have died in Africa’s worst outbreak of the disease. Inside a quarantine zone on the edge of a military hospital, a 32-year-old man with lesions all over his body is losing his battle with disease. Ibrahim Turay, a construction worker […]
Aug 13, 2025
Ghana records first Mpox death as cases surge
Medical Express Ghana has recorded its first death from Mpox, health authorities confirmed Sunday, amid a sharp rise in new infections in the West African country. Twenty-three new cases have been confirmed in the past week, bringing the total number of infections to 257 since the virus was first detected in Ghana in June 2022. […]
Jul 30, 2025