The World Health Organization said Thursday that confirmed cases of monkeypox fell 21% last week after climbing for four weeks in a row.
There are health workers at a pop-up vaccine clinic.
The WHO reported a decrease in the number of new infections reported for the week ending August 22.
The WHO said that cases are rising steeply in North and South America.
There were 16,603 confirmed cases of monkeypox or orthopoxviruses in the U.S. as of August 24, a slight decline from the previous week.
Wyoming was the only state that did not have a reported case of monkeypox.
45,148 is a number According to the CDC, there have been reports of monkeypox in 91 countries that have not experienced the disease before.
There are a number of symptoms caused by monkeypox. Several smaller outbreaks in recent years that have not received much international attention are due to the endemic nature of the disease. In early May, the global outbreak started. The White House declared a public health emergency on August 4 because of a vaccine shortage. The FDA issued an emergency use authorization to allow healthcare workers to give one-fifth of a standard Jynneos vaccine dose, instead of the usual two-thirds. The move will increase the amount of doses available. Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York are the centers of the U.S. outbreak.
The White House has a new vaccine administration strategy called "dose sparing." Many health care workers don't know how to administer the vaccine and are having difficulty adapting. The CDC plans to teach health workers how to do it. The White House's monkeypox response has a problem with some local governments not being able to get five full doses from a single dose. The CEO of Bavarian Nordic raised concerns about the efficacy and safety of the new strategy. According to the Atlantic, the White House relied on a single 2015 study sponsored by the National Institute of Health for data on the new method, which didn't directly examine the shot's ability to protect against disease. The new dose sparing strategy will be examined in a clinical trial soon after it's been rolled out, according to theNIH.
With a return to college, cases may rise. The spread could be helped by students living in close quarters and coming together to socialize. Several colleges and universities are talking with local and federal health officials to coordinate their responses.
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