Aileen Marty

Nota del editor: Florida planea eliminar todos los mandatos que exigen vacunas para niños y adultos, anunciaron esta semana el gobernador Ron DeSantis y el cirujano general Joseph Ladapo. Sería el primer estado del país en hacerlo. A finales del verano, cuando los meteorólogos siguen en radares y satélites la trayectoria del próximo huracán, los funcionarios de salud pública observan los tableros genéticos que muestran variantes virales y bacterianas.

Rapid Response: Women with proctitis? Think Monkeypox 2022 Dear Editor Monkeypox (mpox) is not considered a sexually transmitted infection (STI); however, it can be contracted during sexual activity, including anorectal intercourse. International cohort studies report that 74-88% of patients diagnosed with mpox present with anogenital lesions.

In The Lancet Microbe, Akaninyene Otu and colleagues called for urgent public health action for the 2022 monkeypox outbreak, noting that cases outside of Africa since May 7, 2022, have exceeded the overall number of cases detected outside of endemic areas from 1970 to the current outbreak. The newest rate of human infections is even more alarming when we consider that cases in the last 2 months vastly exceeded the number of confirmed or suspected human monkeypox cases in the entire 20th century.