Mpox Crisis in Africa: The Emergence of Clade 1b and the Race for Effective Vaccination

In a recent news article for Nature, Sara Reardon discussed the spread of Monkeypox in Africa and examined how vaccines might help improve the situation (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02793-9). Here’s a brief summary of her piece. The WHO declared a public health emergency due to the new Mpox variant, clade 1b, spreading in previously unaffec