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Starting today, Quest Diagnostics will begin testing for monkeypox. The company has developed a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test that uses patient swab specimens to qualitatively detect non-variola orthpoxviruses and monkeypox virus DNA.

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed back years of progress made in combating antimicrobial resistance (AR) in the United States.

Quest Diagnostics will begin testing for monkeypox starting on Wednesday, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 

Beginning this week, Mayo Clinic Laboratories will begin testing for monkeypox using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's orthopoxvirus test, which detects most non-smallpox related orthopoxviruses, including monkeypox. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said the ability of commercial laboratories to test for monkeypox is a crucial component of the agency's

Starting today, Mayo Clinic Laboratories will begin testing for monkeypox using CDC's orthopoxvirus test, which detects most non-smallpox related orthopoxviruses, including monkeypox.

Quest Diagnostics begins Monkeypox testing and developed a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test using patient swab specimens to detect the virus and is now available nationwide to healthcare providers except New York.

Quest Diagnostics will begin testing for monkeypox starting on Wednesday, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 

A sharp and early explosion of influenza has hit the country, signaling that a long-feared, post-pandemic flu revival has arrived

Multiple countries, including the United States, that do not usually have an issue with monkeypox are reporting outbreaks.

Mayo Clinic Laboratories will begin testing for monkeypox Monday using CDC’s orthopoxvirus test, which detects most non-smallpox related orthopoxviruses, including monkeypox.