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Research & Reviews 1,005 results
https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.28683
Journal of Medical Virology; Liu T, Yang S et. al.
Mar 18th, 2023 - An ongoing outbreak of monkeypox virus (MPXV) was first reported in the United Kingdom (UK) on 6 May 2022. As of 17 November, there had been a total of 80,221 confirmed MPXV cases in over 110 countries. Based on data reported between 6 May and 30 ...
https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(23)00057-9
The Lancet. Infectious Diseases; Bertran M, Andrews N et. al.
Mar 17th, 2023 - The UK experienced a national outbreak of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) disease that started in May, 2022, as did many other countries worldwide, with case numbers rising rapidly, mainly among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with me...
https://doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000003497
AIDS (London, England); Von Tokarski F, Fourn E et. al.
Mar 16th, 2023 - Smallpox vaccine acceptability among French men having sex with men living with HIV in settings of monkeypox outbreak.|2023|Von Tokarski F,Fourn E,Faucheron A,Chan Hew Wai A,Farfour E,|epidemiology,prevention & control,epidemiology,prevention & co...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10012405
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; Fox T, Gould S et. al.
Mar 15th, 2023 - Mpox was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 23 July 2022, following the identification of thousands of cases in several non-endemic countries in previous months. There are ...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9997050
Clinics in Dermatology; Czinn AB, Hoenig LJ
Mar 12th, 2023 - The word "pox" indicated, during the late 15th Century, a disease characterized by eruptive sores. When an outbreak of syphilis began in Europe during that time, it was called by many names including the French term "La Grosse Verole" ("the great ...
Guidelines 9 results
https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o2080
BMJ Mahase E.
Aug 23rd, 2022 - Smaller doses of the smallpox vaccine, used to provide protection against monkeypox, will be piloted at NHS sites in London and Manchester to maximise supply, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has announced. In the pilot scheme—which will t...
https://www.science.org/content/article/how-effective-monkeypox-vaccine-scientists-scramble-clues-trials-ramp
Science Kupferschmidt K.
Aug 10th, 2022 - When monkeypox suddenly started spreading globally in May, the world was fortunate in one respect: a vaccine was available. MVA, originally developed by Bavarian Nordic as a smallpox vaccine, was already licensed for monkeypox in Canada and the Un...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.08.03.22278233v1.full.pdf
Medrxiv Thy M, .
Aug 4th, 2022 - A third-generation smallpox vaccine was recommended in France for individuals who had a high-risk contact with a PCR-confirmed Monkeypox patient. We aimed to describe the outcomes of high-risk contacts receiving third-generation smallpox vaccine...
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/monkeypox
World Health Organization (WHO)
May 19th, 2022 - Monkeypox is a viral zoonosis (a virus transmitted to humans from animals) with symptoms similar to those seen in the past in smallpox patients, although it is clinically less severe. With the eradication of smallpox in 1980 and subsequent cessati...
https://www.science.org/content/article/monkeypox-threat-grows-scientists-debate-best-vaccine-strategy
Science Kupferschmidt K.
May 7th, 2022 - In 1959, German microbiologist Anton Mayr took a strain of vaccinia, a poxvirus used to inoculate against smallpox, and started to grow it in cells taken from chicken embryos. After several years of transferring the strain to fresh cells every few...
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Clinicaltrials.gov 104 results
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05762523
Mar 9th, 2023 - This study is an open-label, controlled, parallel-group clinical trial. The study included 60 healthy volunteers of both sexes aged 18-40 years who had not been vaccinated against smallpox, had no vaccine marks and anti-smallpox virus neutralizing...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01374984
Mar 9th, 2023 - This is an open-label Phase 4 study designed to collect additional data to assess the safety and efficacy of VIGIV [CNJ-016, Vaccinia Immune Globulin Intravenous (Human), sterile solution] in the first 100 consented patients treated with VIGIV.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05745987
Feb 27th, 2023 - An important unanswered question is the efficacy of post-exposure prophylaxis with a smallpox vaccine in reducing the risk of mpox. There are no randomized trials to date that have answered this question, which is why it is important to do a study...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05438953
Feb 13th, 2023 - Indication for Post-Exposure vaccination (PEP) : PEP has demonstrated its interest in different situations, in particular rabies, tetanus or hepatitis B, as recalled in the report "Guide for post-exposure immunization: vaccination and immunoglobul...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02743455
Dec 5th, 2022 - This study is a multi-center, double-blind, placebo-controlled, Phase I study to evaluate the safety, reactogenicity, tolerability, and immunogenicity of Modified Vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic-Yellow Fever (MVA-BN-YF) in Flavivirus-naive healthy...
News 383 results
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/generalinfectiousdisease/103365
Mar 2nd, 2023 - With no clinical trial data yet available for treating severe mpox, the CDC has published an interim report with guidance. There are many FDA-regulated drugs and biologics stockpiled for smallpox preparedness that can be used to treat severe mpox;...
https://www.mdedge.com/fedprac/article/260600/covid-19-updates/cardiac-adverse-events-following-covid-19-vaccination
Jay R. Montgomery, MD, Donna L. Hoffman, MSN et. al.
Jan 17th, 2023 - Vaccinations have substantially reduced morbidity and mortality from many infectious diseases. Despite the clear value of vaccinations in public health, efforts to better understand adverse events (AEs) following immunization are important to sust.
https://www.mdedge.com/internalmedicine/article/260577/lotme/early-retirement-and-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad
Lucas Franki, Richard Franki et. al.
Jan 12th, 2023 - The ‘scheme’ in the name should have been a clue Retirement. The shiny reward to a lifetime’s worth of working and saving.
https://tools.cdc.gov/medialibrary/index.aspx#/media/id/732123
Monkeypox (mpox) is a rare disease caused by a virus from the same family as the virus that causes smallpox.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/985119
Dec 8th, 2022 - Poliomyelitis is on the radar screen once again, but it's not only because of the recent case of paralytic polio striking in Rockland County, New York, and the related findings of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 in city sewage systems. It also d...