Health Alerts

More than 80 countries that had not previously reported monkeypox (MPX) cases are now part of the extensive outbreak in which cases are nearing 32,000, rising by almost 10 percent in the week to Aug 7. The US total has topped 9,400, while Spain, Germany and the UK round out the top 4. In related news, the B.1 lineage of the MPX virus has been detected most frequently in non-endemic countries, however, as reported in the JH Outbreak Alerts on Aug 3, the A.2 lineage has been sequenced from cases in the three US states, Thailand and India, suggesting ‘there could be an additional cluster of human-to-human transmission that has potentially been unrecognized for years’. Read more