Mpox is a disease caused by the highly infectious monkeypox virus. It's quite easily passed on from one person to another.

Cases of mpox in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first detected appear to be "plateauing," ...

No FDA-approved rapid tests exist that specifically test for H5N1, and the first near-point-of-care test for mpox was ...

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Tuesday shows meaningful declines in STI rates between 2022 ...

An FDA-approved vaccine for smallpox and mpox is effective but causes side effects. The other requires multiple doses. An experimental single-dose vaccine uses the horsepox virus to harness the ...

Congo reported fewer than 100 mpox cases last week, down from nearly 400 in July but infections have risen in Burundi and ...

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated Congo needs at least 3 million mpox vaccines to stop the ...

This strain has been detected in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Thailand, India, Germany and six African countries that had ...

The World Health Organisation on Monday announced that it is set to convene its Emergency Committee on November 22 to assess ...

The new patients are currently under specialist care at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals in London, with 'extensive planning' ...

Recent data released from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals sexually transmitted infections around the ...

The rapid spread of mpox, formerly called monkeypox, is now a global health emergency. The virus has appeared in a dozen other African countries and now made its way over to the UK.