On Jul 13. 2022, Quest Diagnostics announced the nationwide availability of the company’s lab-developed molecular diagnostic test to aid in the diagnosis of infection with the monkeypox virus, with plans to launch the CDC’s orthopoxvirus test in the first half of August.

The company’s novel dual-target real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test is believed to be the first commercially available test developed and offered by a national laboratory provider to aid in the qualitative detection and differentiation of monkeypox virus (West African clade) DNA from other non-variola orthopoxviruses.