From July 6 to 19, 2022, a total of 21 persons were infected by monkeypox (recently renamed mpox) virus (MPXV) that was likely to have been transmitted by means of piercing or tattooing at the same ...

A recent opinion piece in the New York Times, “America May Soon Have Another Sexually Transmitted Infection,” was accompanied by a photo of vials labeled “Monkeypox Virus (MPXV).” The inaccuracy and ...

In a recent review published in Virologica Sinica, researchers elucidated the epidemiology and clinical presentation, biological features, pathogenicity and prevention and control strategies for ...

Mpox is a viral disease usually transmitted from animals to humans and symptoms include fever and skin rashes. In 2023, a new variant of monkeypox virus (MPXV), called clade Ib, emerged in Kamituga in ...

ART denotes antiretroviral therapy, Ct cycle threshold, HIV human immunodeficiency virus, MPXV mpox virus, NA not available, and PCR polymerase chain reaction. Age ranges are provided to protect the ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers estimated monkeypox (MPX) virus (MPXV) transmission and simulated vaccination scenarios using models developed for coronavirus ...

The World Health Organization declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern in July 2022. In a study recently published in Science, a research team from the Institute of ...

This study is led by Dr. Xiaogang Qu (Laboratory of Chemical Biology and State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences) ...

A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST, has identified a protein sensor that plays a key role in triggering severe inflammatory responses during mpox virus (MPXV) infection. The study reveals ...