Inger K. Damon

TL;DR: This investigation documents the isolation and identification of monkeypox virus from humans in the Western Hemisphere and suggests that the prairie dogs had been exposed to at least one species of rodent recently imported into the United States from West Africa.

TL;DR: Analysis of clinical, laboratory and epidemiological features of confirmed human monkeypox case-patients, using data from outbreaks in the USA and the Congo Basin, and the results suggested that human disease pathogenicity was associated with the viral strain.

TL;DR: In this article, a confirmed case of monkeypox was found in 34 patients, 5 (15%) were defined as severely ill, and 9 (26%) were hospitalized for 148 hours; no patients died.

TL;DR: A modeling tool was constructed to provide estimates of the potential number of future cases of the current West African epidemic of Ebola and how control and prevention interventions can slow and eventually stop the epidemic.

TL;DR: Congo basin MPXV-ZAI-V79 is more virulent for cynomolgus monkeys as compared to presumed West African MPxV-COP-58, which may explain the lack of case-fatalities in the U.S. 2003 monkeypox outbreak.