What We Know about the Rise in Monkeypox Cases Worldwide

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May 24, 2022

Epidemiology What We Know about the Rise in Monkeypox Cases Worldwide It is unclear how some people recently diagnosed with the disease became infected with the monkeypox virus or how it is likely to spread By Lars Fischer,Tanya Lewis

Climate Change Deadly Heat in India and Pakistan 'Highly Unlikely' without Climate Change A weekslong heat wave in India and Pakistan was 30 times more likely because of human-caused warming By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Space Exploration Largest Marsquake Ever Recorded May Be InSight's Swan Song NASA's three-and-a-half-year mission to collect seismic data from Mars is running out of juice By Joanna Thompson

Genetics Science Must Not Be Used To Foster White Supremacy It's scientists' responsibility to reveal the inherent biases of studies used to disparage Blacks and other groups By Janet D. Stemwedel

Public Health 'When Will Kids under Five Get COVID Vaccines?' and Other Questions Experts address when the youngest children could be eligible for the shots, why that has taken so long, and more By Charles Schmidt

Endangered Species Everything You Know about Shark Conservation Is Wrong Sharks need our help, but many widespread conservation messages are not based on scientific evidence By David Shiffman

Epidemiology This Tick Can Make You Allergic to Meat, and It's Spreading Work on genetically modified pigs might provide a solution to the strange illness By Sara Goudarzi

Anthropology This Amazonian Indigenous Group Has Lessons in Sustainable Living for All of Us The Apiwtxa community has designed a way to live with, rather than off, nature By Carolina Schneider Comandulli,Apiwtxa Association

Climate Change California Faces Summer Blackouts from Climate Extremes Energy planners are working to increase the grid's reliability to keep the power on during droughts, wildfires and heat waves By Anne C. Mulkern,E&E News

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Health & Medicine, Volume 4, Issue 3

FROM THE ARCHIVE What Is Monkeypox, the Virus Infecting People in the U.S. and Europe? A microbiologist explains what is known about this smallpox cousin By Rodney E. Rohde,The Conversation US | May 2022

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