mPox in pregnancy. News reports

For scientific primary sources for mPox in pregnancy (click here). In this regularly updated post we list mainstream news reports only. As far a possible we avoid duplicate reports. To date, August 2024, in contrast to Covid-19 (click here), there have been no celebrity cases of mPox in pregnancy.

August 2022

An unnamed 37-year-old pregnant woman in Campinas, Sao Paolo state, Brazil, contracted mPox. The pregnancy is ongoing (click here). Report 5 August 2022

July 2022

An unnamed woman in the US contracted mPox during pregnancy (click here). Both survived. The baby was given prohylactic IgG. The many news reports of this case probably refer to MP studies 12 and 17 (click here). Report 26 July 2022

November 2017

An unnamed woman from the Congo with suspected mPox (tests awaited) miscarried at 16 weeks (click here) Report 9 November, 2017