Behavior change and infection induced immunity led to the decline of the 2022 Mpox outbreak in Berlin - Communications Medicine Gubela et al. calibrate an adaptive agent-based model with intra-host dynamics to investigate the 2022 Mpox outbreak dynamics in Berlin. Behavioral change and infection-induced immunity are the main reasons for outbreak decline, while the effect of vaccination is marginal.

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Gubela et al. investigate the concomitant effects of sexual contact networks, transient contact reductions and the effect of infection- vs. vaccine-derived immunity on the 2022 mpox outbreak.

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