Politico October 10, 2024
Missteps by the World Health Organization, a vaccine manufacturer and an African country led to another health emergency, experts say.
Mpox is back. More than 900 people, mostly African children, have died this year and public health officials say the new variant inflicting that toll could arrive in the U.S. at any time.
There’s a lot of blame to go around.
It was only two years ago that mpox, previously known as monkeypox, arrived in the U.S. and began spreading. U.S. authorities contained it with a vaccination campaign targeted at those most at risk, men who have sex with men. But no vaccines got to Africa, where the disease is endemic in some countries, making it easier for the new...
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