2025

Science | "Explosive mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone overwhelms health systems"


Dr. Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health who has studied mpox for decades, was interviewed by Science

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The UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health's Dr. Anne Rimoin, Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health and professor in the Department of Epidemiology, was interviewed by Science about a new mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone.

Some researchers say the new outbreak shows clade Ib and IIb may be more similar than previously believed. Instead, local factors may determine how these strains spread and the severity of the disease they cause.

“Just because it’s happened one way in one place, doesn’t mean it’s going to happen that same way in another place,” said Rimoin, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles and director of the Center for Global and Immigrant Health.

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