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YLE Other Infectious Diseases

This newsletter is about non-COVID19 infectious diseases around the world.

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Emerging infectious diseases like monkeypox and polio capture many headlines, but parents of young children know it’s the “normal” viruses (now…

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Sep 23

Monkeypox (MPX) cases continue to increase in the United States and across the globe. Concurrently, the availability of the best vaccine option…

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Aug 18

Vaccines will help control the monkeypox (MPX) outbreak. The bad news is that we desperately need more doses. And we don’t know how much the vaccines…

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Aug 11

There is substantial concern about monkeypox (MPV) exposure and risk among the general public. Some of this is warranted; some is not. Misconceptions…

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Aug 3

In two short months, more than 18,000 cases of monkeypox (MPV) and five deaths have been reported across the globe. This is a rapidly evolving…

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Jul 28

Yesterday, an unvaccinated, young adult was diagnosed with polio in New York and developed paralysis. They had no history of travel. This case follows a…

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Jul 22

Two days ago the CDC activated an Emergency Operations Center for our monkeypox (MPX) response

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Jul 1

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