monkeypox

Researchers discovered monkeypox virus in primate testicular tissues.

The newly authorized intradermal vaccination only requires one-fifth of the usual vaccine dose. This will help stretch out the limited vaccine supply, experts say, but only if healthcare personnel receive sufficient training.

FEMA official Robert Fenton and a deputy are charged with increasing access to tests, vaccines, and treatment.

The longer and farther the virus spreads, the more likely it could become endemic in new areas, says UCLA epidemiologist Anne Rimoin.

Two strains of monkeypox have been detected in the US, suggesting the virus has been circulating in the country for some time, the CDC says.

With a global alarm ringing because of an unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox, we should also consider a different but closely related viral threat.

Experts are scrambling to understand clusters of the normally rare disease that have been reported in Europe and North America in the last month.

A patient caught the rare disease in Nigeria before flying through two US airports, exposing more than 200 people from 27 states.

Cases of monkeypox, a disease caused by a DNA virus closely related to smallpox and cowpox, have increased dramatically in rural villages in the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to researchers working in the war-ravaged African country.

For University of California, Los Angeles, epidemiologist Anne Rimoin, 2007 was a rough year.