The African Union's health watchdog said Thursday it has endorsed an mpox test from Morocco, hailing it as a "major milestone" to help combat the outbreak on the continent.

It’s not yet certain which animals are the natural carriers. But, based on the available evidence, it is thought to be ...

Vaccines that prevent smallpox and mpox come in two varieties. One uses a single shot of a live virus but carries the risk of ...

WHO to Convene Emergency Meeting on Mpox on Nov. 22 GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization will convene a meeting of ...

The World Health Organization will convene a meeting later this month to determine whether the mpox outbreak occurring in ...

The World Health Organization says mpox cases in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first detected appear to be “plateauing,” even as the virus continues to increase in ...

These days a new concern is on the minds of its visitors: mpox. The first human case of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, was described in the 1970s. The disease is thought to be caused by a ...

Several African and ex-Soviet countries have expressed interest in buying Russia's vaccine against smallpox and mpox viruses, ...

Alarmed doctors suspected smallpox but, instead, they soon discovered something even more bewildering: The first-known human case of monkeypox, now called mpox. The child was patient zero.

A vial of the mpox vaccine is seen during the launch of the vaccination campaign at the General Hospital of Goma, Dr Congo on ...

The first case of a new, more dangerous strain of mpox has been found in Britain, the UK Health Security Agency has said. The patient has been transferred to a high-level isolation unit at the ...

People travelling to Kenya have been warned “take extra precautions” amid an outbreak of a particularly deadly strain of mpox. The country has reported eight cases of mpox clade Ib ...