US FDA Provides Monkeypox Update, Including Testing Protocols

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is providing the non-variola orthopoxvirus test throughout its public health Laboratory Response Network. The diagnostic is currently the only FDA-cleared test to detect monkeypox.

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As if one global pandemic wasn’t enough, another one seems to be rising in its wake.

Since May, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global health emergency over the outbreak of the monkeypox virus, which has

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