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How Easy Is It to Catch Monkeypox?
Monkeypox is now definitively more widespread than just a few cases, with the World Health Organisation calling it a Public Health Emergency of
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Highlights from the August 2022 Issue
Editor’s Note: We asked authors of Original Investigations to provide short plain-language summaries that would briefly summarize what inspired
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Is Monkeypox a Sexually Transmitted Disease?
In declaring monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organisation on Monday acknowledged that currently this
Is Monkeypox an STD? That’s the Wrong Question.
It has been 82 days since the first monkeypox case of the 2022 global outbreak was detected in the United Kingdom. In that time, we’ve learned
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Review of “Epidemiology of Eating Disorders in Africa”
by Rebecca Gwira Rebecca Gwira is a 2022 UNC CEED Summer Research Fellow and a graduate student in the Department of Counseling and Psychological
The U.S. Is Screwing Up Big Time on Monkeypox
When Sebastian Köhn woke up on the Saturday before Independence Day, he knew something was wrong. He’d slept for 12 hours straight, and he had a
The U.S. Is Screwing Up Big Time on Monkeypox
When Sebastian Köhn woke up on the Saturday before Independence Day, he knew something was wrong. He’d slept for 12 hours straight, and he had a
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In Case You Missed It: MMWR
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) maintains a collection of the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
In Case You Missed It: MMWR
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) maintains a collection of the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
There Is a Right Way and a Wrong Way to Respond to Monkeypox
When the first case of monkeypox raised alarm in the United Kingdom on May 13 and the headlines about potential spread began circulating, many people
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Great, Now We Have to Worry About Monkeypox?
Smallpox is the only disease we’ve ever managed to fully eradicate in humans; it hasn’t existed anywhere in the world since 1980. But its close
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Great, Now We Have to Worry About Monkeypox?
Smallpox is the only disease we’ve ever managed to fully eradicate in humans; it hasn’t existed anywhere in the world since 1980. But its close
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It’s impossible to determine your personal COVID-19 risks and frustrating to try – but you can still take action
Before the pandemic, an intergenerational tea party wouldn’t have seemed a risky proposition. fotostorm/E+ via Getty Images by Malia Jones,
In Case You Missed It: MMWR
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) maintains a collection of the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
The Dawn of the Pandemic Age
The world is teeming with animals that have never met before. They clamber under dripping green canopies in rainforest, they crouch in the rough