Clade 1b mpox outbreak in DR Congo linked to sex workers; New York reports first case
University of Minnesota http://twin-cities.umn.edu/ 612-625-5000 New research on the epidemiologic and genomic evolution of the clade 1b mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) suggests 83% of cases were linked to sex work, three healthcare workers contracted the disease, and infected pregnant women frequently miscarried. Marion Koopmans, DVM, PhD, of Erasmus University in the Netherlands, and her colleagues published these findings yesterday in Nature Medicine. In related news, New
