{"id":8914,"date":"2025-03-11T18:57:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T23:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8914"},"modified":"2025-03-11T18:57:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T23:57:37","slug":"co-circulating-viruses-causing-concern-in-mpox-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/11\/co-circulating-viruses-causing-concern-in-mpox-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-Circulating Viruses Causing Concern in Mpox Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idse.net\/Viral-Infections\/Article\/03-25\/Mpox-Outbreak-Uganda-varicella-zoster-CROI-2025\/76463\">IDSE.Net<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spilled over into Uganda, which borders the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idse.net\/Tag\/DRC\/20322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DRC<\/a>, according to reports at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idse.net\/Tag\/CROI-2025\/18977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CROI 2025<\/a>, which is ongoing in San Francisco (abstract 191). Surveillance has found co-circulating viruses, particularly varicella-zoster virus, with one person coming down with coinfections. That person died, according to\u00a0<strong>Nicholas Bbosa,\u00a0<\/strong>PhD, an assistant professor at the London School of Hygiene &amp; Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and a molecular virologist by training and scientist at the Medical Research Council\/Uganda Virus Research Institute &amp; LSHTM Uganda Research Unit. \u201cUganda\u2019s mpox outbreak is closely related to the recent clade 1b mpox outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We are able to confirm an impact from varicella-zoster virus coinfection and co-circulation,\u201d Dr. Bbosa said. Other African countries\u2014the DRC in 2020 and Burundi in 2024\u2014saw similar findings. Tightening the case definition and warning healthcare professionals about the differential diagnoses might prevent misdiagnoses, according to Dr. Bbosa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idse.net\/Viral-Infections\/Article\/03-25\/Mpox-Outbreak-Uganda-varicella-zoster-CROI-2025\/76463\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDSE.Net The mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spilled over into Uganda, which borders the\u00a0DRC, according to reports at\u00a0CROI 2025, which is ongoing in San Francisco (abstract 191). Surveillance has found co-circulating viruses, particularly varicella-zoster virus, with one person coming down with coinfections. That person died, according to\u00a0Nicholas Bbosa,\u00a0PhD, an assistant professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monkeypox"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8915,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions\/8915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}