An explosive outbreak of mpox in Sierra Leone is raising fears of wider spread. The country of 9 million has seen more than 3000 cases already.
“We could see very rapid geographic expansion […] if we don’t really try and get things under control quickly,” says @kindrachukjason.bsky.social
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This is horrible and maybe now academics in the global north who have always traveled freely without the added worry of visa and immigration concerns will have some empathy for academics from the global South for whom this is actually the norm i.e. harassment at borders and visa denials.
Kai Kupferschmidt
I hope that so-called "international" conferences will be held in less prohibitive locations now.
Rapid transmission through sexual networks raises fears of wider spread in the region
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If you think about how people reacted to lockdowns & omicron wave in Australia, then we have a piping hot piece of research for you, that breaks it down by socioeconomic status: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Increasing evidence for multimodal transmission of mpox! Our work showed that sexual + nonsexual transmission led to underestimation of attack rate even when nonsexual transmission is initially minimal and surveillance needs to be focused on multiple modes of transmission.
doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
New paper out with @joelcmiller.bsky.social @chpoletto.bsky.social
This paper's for you if you are interested in relationships between realised and intrinsic generation intervals for epidemics on networks!
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
BK. Titanji
Pratyush Kollepara
Author summary When a new infectious disease outbreak starts, mathematical epidemiologists find themselves building or using mathematical models to understand its propagation, predict its future cours...
This is horrible and maybe now academics in the global north who have always traveled freely without the added worry of visa and immigration concerns will have some empathy for academics from the global South for whom this is actually the norm i.e. harassment at borders and visa denials.
