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Newswise: FAU Researchers Confront New U.S. and Global Challenges in Vaccinations of Adults
Released: 7-Oct-2024 8:30 AM EDT
FAU Researchers Confront New U.S. and Global Challenges in Vaccinations of Adults
Florida Atlantic University

Over the past decade, decreasing vaccination rates now threaten the huge beneficial impacts of vaccinations in the U.S. and globally. Researchers discuss the multifactorial barriers including increasing vaccine hesitancy and new clinical and public health challenges in vaccinations of U.S. adults.

2-Oct-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Mpox Vaccine Antibody Responses Waned within a Year, Study Shows
Beth Israel Lahey Health

Research shows people previously vaccinated against mpox in 2022 had declining antibody responses after six to 12 months, as World Health Organization (WHO) designates the 2024 mpox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.

Released: 2-Oct-2024 12:05 PM EDT
What You Should Know About Mpox
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Since May 18, 2022, cases of mpox have been spreading in the United States, including California. Since August 2024, there has been a new outbreak declared due to a significant increase in cases from the Democratic Republic of Congo and its neighboring countries in Central and East Africa. Here's everything families need to know about mpox.

Newswise: The latest mpox outbreak and its threat to vision
Released: 27-Aug-2024 3:30 PM EDT
The latest mpox outbreak and its threat to vision
NIH, National Eye Institute (NEI)

Monkeypox virus (mpoxv) has re-emerged, designated on August 14 as a global emergency by the World Health Organization. Newly evolved strains of mpox viruses can efficiently spread among people. In addition to skin rashes, mpox infection can cause eye complications including inflammation of the clear tissue covering the iris and pupil called the cornea (keratitis), the tissue covering the white of the eye and the underside of the eyelid (conjunctivitis, or pink eye), and the eyelid (blepharitis).

Released: 22-Aug-2024 1:05 PM EDT
LJI scientists lead new mpox research
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) are investigating how the mutated clade 1 mpox virus may affect children and older patients—and how new vaccines can help the body fight back.

Newswise: Mpox continues to circulate at low numbers among gay and bisexual men who have sex with men
5-Jun-2024 5:05 PM EDT
Mpox continues to circulate at low numbers among gay and bisexual men who have sex with men
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

Mpox continues to circulate in the U.S. among gay and bisexual men who have sex with men. Though the number fell sharply to only 3 cases during the June through December 2023 multisite surveillance period compared to the previous highs, concern for its reemergence continues due to, among other things, incomplete knowledge among other groups.

Released: 19-Apr-2024 9:05 AM EDT
New Research Defines Specific Genomic Changes Associated with the Transmissibility of the Monkeypox Virus
Mount Sinai Health System

Mount Sinai scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII) in Madrid, Spain, have located and identified alterations in the monkeypox virus genome that potentially correlate with changes in the virus’s transmissibility observed in the 2022 outbreak.

Newswise: Developing Research into Mpox Infections
Released: 16-Apr-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Developing Research into Mpox Infections
Tufts University

The Martinot Lab at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, where faculty and students have been researching the mpox virus in endometrial tissues to raise awareness of the potential increased risk of mpox virus for women.



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