The World Health Organization has approved an mpox diagnostic test developed by Abbott Laboratories for emergency use, which should expand access to tests in efforts to contain a growing outbreak in Africa which has infected tens of thousands of people. The Alinity m MPXV assay, which is meant for use by trained clinical laboratory personnel, is a real-time PCR test that enables the detection of monkeypox virus DNA from human skin lesion swabs. This allows suspected cases to be confirmed in an efficient manner. “This first mpox diagnostic test listed under the Emergency Use Listing procedure r…