OpinionMay 29, 2024
We Can Prevent Another Summer mPox Outbreak
Queer people’s behavior squashed the U.S. mpox outbreak in 2022. We shouldn’t have to rely on that to stop future outbreaks here or abroad
Stories by Joseph Osmundson
Joseph Osmundson has a Ph.D. in molecular biophysics from the Rockefeller University and is a clinical associate professor in the department of biology at New York University. His writing has been published in the New York Times, the Village Voice, the Atlantic, the New York Review of Books and the Feminist Wire. His book Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between (W.W. Norton, 2022) was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the National Books Critics Circle Award.
OpinionMarch 27, 2024
Viral Genetics Confirms What On-the-Ground Activists Knew Early in the Mpox Outbreak
Molecular biology could have changed the mpox epidemic—and could stop future outbreaks