Zoonotic Infections News

Anthony S. Fauci, MD, announced Monday that he will step down as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in December after 38 years in the position.

The monkeypox outbreak has disproportionately affected gay and bisexual men, including those with HIV.

U.S. officials on Tuesday disclosed a plan to extend the nation’s supply of monkeypox vaccine by allowing providers to deliver it in fractional doses, and to open up monkeypox vaccination to children.

The United States has declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday named Robert Fenton as the White House national monkeypox response coordinator and Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH, as the deputy coordinator.

We spoke with Kristina Bryant, MD, hospital epidemiologist at Norton Children’s Hospital and professor of pediatrics in the division of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Louisville, regarding symptoms, misconceptions and ways to protect children against monkeypox.

Bavarian Nordic announced today that it has received approval from the FDA to manufacture its monkeypox vaccine Jynneos at the company’s fill and finish facility in Denmark.

On July 17, officials announced the first ever Marburg virus outbreak in Ghana, marking just the second time the virus has been detected in West Africa.

In a commentary published in Obstetrics & Gynecology, experts from the CDC and Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, discussed the clinical implications of the current monkeypox outbreak.

In a first, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MSc, decided on his own to declare the global monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.