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Preprint: Monkeypox has epidemic potential

“Monkeypox has epidemic potential”

“We conclude that circulation of smallpox, followed by worldwide smallpox vaccination, have previously protected human populations from monkeypox epidemics. More...

May 24, 2022July 18, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Genome, Health, Hospitalization, Infection, Monkeypox, Origins, Preprint, Switzerland, Testing, Transmission, Vaccine

Moderna looks at producing a Monkeypox vaccine

Moderna is considering turning its mRNA vaccine platform towards finding a vaccine to defend against Monkeypox, according to a recent tweet by the company. More...

May 24, 2022July 18, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Coronavirus, Health, Infection, Moderna, Monkeypox, Revaccination, Texas, Transmission, USA, Vaccine, Zoonosis

USA: BA.2.12.1 is now the dominant Covid variant at 58% of sequences

The CDC has just updated its Covid variant tracker, and it shows that the BA.2.12.1 Omicron subvariant has outcompeted BA.2, and is the dominant variant in the US, having been found in 57.9% of genome sequences. More...

May 24, 2022May 24, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com BA.2.12.1, Coronavirus, Genome, Health, Healthcare, Infection, Testing, Transmission, USA

China: Beijing moves 1,800 residents into quarantine amid COVID-19 outbreak

Over 1,800 residents from Beijing’s Haidian district have been transferred to Zhangjiakou, one of the host cities of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, for centralized quarantine as the Chinese capital fights an arduous battle against the latest Omicron outbreak that has lasted for a month with over 1,500 infections reported. More...

May 23, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Asia, China, Coronavirus, Health, Infection, Lockdown, Omicron, Transmission

North Korea: Nearly 3 million Covid cases so far

Pyongyang, May 23: According to information of the state emergency epidemic prevention headquarters, more than 167,650 fevered persons (about 18,440 less than the previous day), over 267,630 recoveries (about 31,550 less than the previous day) and one death were reported from 18:00 of May 21 to 18:00 of May 22 throughout the country. More...

May 23, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Asia, Coronavirus, Deaths, Health, Healthcare, Hospitalization, Infection, North Korea, Omicron, Transmission

Research: The changing epidemiology of human monkeypox

“Using a structured format, we describe the greater than 10-fold increase in confirmed, probable, and/or possible monkeypox, cases over the past 5 decades, from 48 cases in the 1970s to 520 cases in the 1990s. More...

May 23, 2022May 23, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Africa, America, Asia, Australasia, Europe, Evolution, Health, Imvanex, Infection, Monkeypox, Symptoms, Transmission, UK, USA, Vaccine, Zoonosis

China: First Omicron BA.4 case reported

China has reported its first case of the Omicron BA.4 variant. More...

May 22, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Asia, BA.4, China, Coronavirus, Genome, Infection, Omicron, Testing, Transmission

Preprint: Enhanced Fusogenicity of BA.4, BA.5 and BA.2.12.1

“We found that the new Omicron subvariants BA.4/5 and BA.2.12.1 were more resistant to neutralization by mRNA-vaccinated and boosted health care worker sera and Omicron-BA.1-wave patient sera than were the BA.1 and BA.2 variants.” More...