People at higher risk of monkeypox exposure to be offered vaccination
Some gay and bisexual men at higher risk of exposure to monkeypox will be offered the smallpox vaccine in a bid to contain the current outbreak, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. (Source: GP Online News)
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Think All Viruses Get Milder With Time? Not This Rabbit-Killer.
The myxoma virus, fatal to millions of Australian rabbits, is a textbook example of the unexpected twists in the evolution of viruses and their hosts. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - June 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Carl Zimmer Tags: Rabbits Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Smallpox Research Evolution (Biology) Viruses Science and Technology your-feed-science Source Type: news
Why the monkeypox outbreak is mostly affecting men who have sex with men
Ever since monkeypox started sickening thousands of people worldwide this spring, two big questions have loomed: Why is a virus that has never managed to spread beyond a few cases outside Africa suddenly causing such a big, global outbreak? And why are the overwhelming majority of those affected men who have sex with men (MSM)?
A long history of work on sexually transmitted infections and early studies of the current outbreak suggest the answers may be linked: The virus may have made its way into highly interconnected sexual networks within the MSM community, where it can spread in ways that it cannot in the ge...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 20, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Monkeypox Testing Shows the U.S. Learned Little from the COVID-19 Pandemic
U.S. testing for monkeypox is insufficient to determine how widespread the virus is and where new cases are cropping up, according to infectious disease experts and advocates concerned about a sluggish response to the outbreak that’s already hit 32 countries.
While government labs have the capacity to test as many as 8,000 samples a week, they’re only using 2% of that capability, suggesting that about 23 monkeypox tests are being performed a day, said James Krellenstein, the cofounder of PrEP4All, an HIV advocacy group that widened its focus during the pandemic. Much more testing is needed to find out where the...
Source: TIME: Health - June 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Madison Muller / Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate News Desk wire Source Type: news
Can We Eradicate Covid? Probably Not. An Infectious Disease Doctor Explains The Challenges
Dr. Mark Kortepeter explains the differences between smallpox, which was eradicated in 1980, and Covid-19 and why the virus is most likely here to stay. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
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WHO To Share Vaccines To Stop Monkeypox Amid Inequity Fears
The World Health Organization said it’s creating a new vaccine-sharing mechanism to stop the outbreak of monkeypox in more than 30 countries beyond Africa. The move could result in the U.N. health agency distributing scarce vaccine doses to rich countries that can otherwise afford them.
To some health experts, the initiative potentially misses the opportunity to control monkeypox virus in the African countries where it’s infected people for decades, serving as another example of the inequity in vaccine distribution that was seen during the coronavirus pandemic.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sa...
Source: TIME: Health - June 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Maria Cheng / Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized Londontime wire Source Type: news
What's the monkeypox vaccine and who should get it?
Although monkeypox is in the same family of viruses as smallpox, the vaccine approved for use in Canada is different from the jabs used to eradicate smallpox last century. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - June 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
C.D.C. Dismisses Airborne Transmission of Monkeypox. Some Experts Disagree.
The virus “is not known to linger in the air,” agency officials said. But the research is far from definitive. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - June 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: your-feed-science Disease Rates Monkeypox Masks Smallpox Centers for Disease Control and Prevention World Health Organization United States Source Type: news
Concern grows that human monkeypox outbreak will establish virus in animals outside Africa
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Eleven days after being bitten by one of her pet prairie dogs, a 3-year-old girl in Wisconsin on 24 May 2003 became the first person outside of Africa to be diagnosed with monkeypox. Two months later, her parents and 69 other people in the United States had suspected or confirmed cases of this disease, which is caused by a relative of the much deadlier smallpox virus. The monkeypox virus is endemic in parts of Africa, and rodents imported from Ghana had apparently infected captive prairie dogs, Nort...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 8, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Monkeypox Can Be Airborne, Too
An abrupt change in C.D.C. guidance underscores a little-known phenomenon: On occasion, monkeypox can be transmitted through aerosols, similar to the coronavirus. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - June 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: your-feed-science Monkeypox Masks Smallpox Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Source Type: news
Orthopoxvirus Infections (Including Smallpox and Monkeypox)
Contains information on orthopoxviruses, which are a genus of DNA viruses that infect humans and animals. The most well known member is variola virus, which causes smallpox. Also contains information on monkeypox virus which is endemic in parts of Africa and has caused several outbreaks around the world. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
WHO outlines five preventive measures to stop human-to-human monkeypox transmission
A zoonosis disease, which is transmitted from animals to humans, monkeypox is an orthopoxvirus that causes a disease with symptoms similar, but less severe, to smallpox. According to World Health Organization (WHO), while smallpox was eradicated in 1980, monkeypox continues to occur in countries of Central and West Africa. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - June 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Monkeypox: WHO outlines five preventive measures to stop human-to-human transmission
A zoonosis disease, which is transmitted from animals to humans, monkeypox is an orthopoxvirus that causes a disease with symptoms similar, but less severe, to smallpox. According to World Health Organization (WHO), while smallpox was eradicated in 1980, monkeypox continues to occur in countries of Central and West Africa. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - June 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
21 Americans Infected With Monkeypox, C.D.C. Reports
As the number of cases outside Africa approaches 800, governments are scrambling for a limited pool of vaccines and treatments with unclear effectiveness. (Source: NYT Health)
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Pennsylvania's first confirmed monkeypox case reported in Philadelphia
A case of monkeypox was confirmed in a Philadelphia resident Thursday, making it the first in all of Pennsylvania, city health officials said.
Nationally, 10 states have now confirmed cases of the disease, which is spread by person-to-person contact, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
"In humans, the symptoms of monkeypox are similar to but milder than the symptoms of smallpox. Monkeypox begins with fever, headache, muscle ac hes, and exhaustion," the CDC says on its website. "The main… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - June 2, 2022 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Brian X. McCrone Source Type: news
