UNC Charlotte’s response to monkeypox
UNC Charlotte’s response to monkeypox
This electron microscopic (EM) image depicted a monkeypox virion obtained from a clinical sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. It was a thin-section image of a human skin sample. On the left were mature, oval-shaped virus particles, and on the right were the crescents and spherical particles of immature virions. Photo by Cynthia S. Goldsmith & Russell Regnery (Wikimedia Commons).
Although there are no confirmed cases on campus, UNC Charlotte is proactively putting prophylactic measures into place to fight the outbreak of monkeypox in the USA. This is especially important considering that Mecklenburg County has the highest number of confirmed cases of monkeypox in North Carolina, with 174 cases as of September 15, 2022.
Although worries about the new virus are spreading across the nation, UNC Charlotte and the city are establishing regulations and providing many opportunities for vaccination and education about monkeypox virus prevention. As a result, CIPHER’s co-director and professor of bioinformatics and genomics, Dr. Daniel Janies, thinks the chance of an infection spreading to the Charlotte site is minimal.
Click here to go to the Niner Cares site and read some must-known information about monkeypox. And click here to read the original article by Emma Payton (published on Sep. 18, 2022, at Niner Times) about UNC Charlotte’s response to monkeypox.