MedTech Dive August 26, 2024
Nick Paul Taylor

The World Health Organization has declared an mpox outbreak to be a public health emergency of international concern.

Dive Brief:

  • Roche said it is working with partners to increase laboratory capacity for mpox testing worldwide.
  • The push to support diagnosis of mpox comes days after the World Health Organization declared an outbreak of the viral disease a public health emergency of international concern.
  • A new strain of mpox is spreading rapidly in parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the WHO said in a statement, and a coordinated international response is needed to stop outbreaks.

Dive Insight:

The new mpox strain, called clade 1b, is thought to be more virulent than the virus that reached...

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Topics: Biotechnology, Healthcare System, Pharma, Pharma / Biotech, Public Health / COVID
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