How to Use mpox in a Sentence

mpox

noun

• Thirty-eight deaths were linked to mpox; 36 of them were men, and 33 were Black men.
  — Kyla Russell, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
• The mpox virus, is a milder version of its relation, smallpox.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
• An outbreak of mpox — formerly known as monkeypox — spread around the world.
  — Farai Mutsaka, ajc, 16 Dec. 2022
• New mpox infections had already begun to dip before the rollout of the two-dose Jynneos vaccine.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023
• The World Health Organization on Thursday said that mpox should no longer be deemed a public health crisis.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• Avoid contact with objects and materials that a person with mpox has used.
  — Cathy Cassata, Health, 26 May 2023
• The term monkeypox will remain in the ICD, to lower the risk of a disconnect between studies that used the old terminology and those that use mpox.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 28 Nov. 2022
• Tedros noted that nearly 90% fewer mpox cases were reported to WHO in the past 3 months compared with the preceding 3 months.
  — Bymeredith Wadman, science.org, 11 May 2023
• As the pandemic wanes, a number of other pathogens — mpox, measles, influenza — are wreaking fresh havoc.
  — Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• Chicago’s weekly mpox case rate is the highest since early November.
  — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 8 May 2023
• Most of the cases have been reported by countries that hadn’t previously seen mpox cases.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 11 May 2023
• The World Health Organization declared last week that mpox is no longer a global health emergency.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 15 May 2023
• What made these cases different than previous outbreaks is that mpox rarely spreads outside West and Central Africa.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2022
• In addition to the coronavirus, the CDC has used wastewater data to detect the mpox (formerly called monkeypox), and polio viruses.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 21 Jan. 2023
• Since last year, Pieters and other gay men have been pushing back against the stigmas associated with a new illness, mpox, formerly known as monkeypox.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
• The discrepancy mirrors the current perception of the mpox emergency.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 20 Apr. 2023
• Also, Walensky and other U.S. officials were criticized last year for not being aggressive enough against an emerging mpox outbreak that faded in the late summer and fall.
  — Mike Stobbe, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
• In rare cases, mpox can turn deadly, especially for people with weakened immune systems.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 15 May 2023
• As vaccination and behavioral change have reduced the risk of contracting mpox, the benefit conveyed by vaccination can appear to have shrunk.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 8 Dec. 2022
• Similar to shigella cases, mpox infections, which can be severe, typically resolve without the need for treatment and are rarely fatal.
  — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2023
• Today, only around one case per day is reported on average around the country and only a handful of jurisdictions have spotted mpox in their recent wastewater surveillance.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023
• Last month, the World Health Organization renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Dec. 2022
• Globally, mpox diagnoses have similarly declined, according to the WHO.
  — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2023
• In July, Ghebreyesus declared an international public health emergency for mpox when an emergency committee twice failed to meet a consensus.
  — Byerin Prater, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
• This year, commercial laboratories began testing wastewater for mpox, previously known as monkeypox.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 1 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024