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Role of community and sexual contacts as drivers of MPXV clade I

Using data from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a mathematical transmission model accounting for age, sex and sexual activity is able to identify the role of different transmission routes in the spread of the novel clade Ib of mpox.

Hiroaki Murayama
Toshiaki R. Asakura
Akira Endo
ResearchOpen Access06 Apr 2026
Nature Health

P: 1-12
Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development

The advantage of living in cities compared with rural areas with respect to height and BMI in children and adolescents has generally become smaller globally from 1990 to 2020, except in sub-Saharan Africa.

Anu Mishra
Bin Zhou
Majid Ezzati
ResearchOpen Access29 Mar 2023
Nature

Volume: 615, P: 874-883
Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

Contrary to the view that urbanization is a major driver of the global rise in obesity, the global increase in body-mass index is shown to be mostly due to increases in the body-mass indexes of rural populations.

Honor Bixby
James Bentham
Majid Ezzati
ResearchOpen Access08 May 2019
Nature

Volume: 569, P: 260-264