Originally published by our sister publication Infectious Disease Special Edition
By Marie Rosenthal, MS
The mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spilled over into Uganda, which borders the DRC, according to reports at CROI 2025, which is ongoing in San Francisco (abstract 191). Surveillance has found co-circulating viruses, particularly varicella-zoster virus, with one person coming down with coinfections. That person died, according to Nicholas Bbosa, PhD, an assistant