A new variant of human mpox has claimed the lives of approximately 5% of people with reported infections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2023, many of them children. Since then, it has ...

Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, cases are on the rise here in the U.S., with nearly double the number of infections ...

Mpox is now considered a global health emergency as cases surge in Central Africa and a new, more severe subtype of the virus spreads to multiple countries — prompting concerns about lockdowns ...

Children are particularly vulnerable to the new strain of the deadly mpox virus that is spreading globally after being declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health ...

Matt Binnicker is the CSO for Mayo Collaborative Services. Due to the alarming surge in cases of mpox (formerly referred to as monkeypox), the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

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 ...

Authorities reported the first case of the new mpox strain in the U.K. last week, stating that a patient is receiving treatment at a London hospital following recent travel to African countries ...

Some health officials say mpox cases in Congo appear to be “stabilizing.” GOMA, Congo -- Some health officials say mpox cases in Congo appear to be “stabilizing” — a possible sign that ...

Two more cases of a new strain of mpox have been detected in the UK, officials say. Last week, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said a single case of the mpox virus variant Clade 1b had been ...

The Access and Allocation Mechanism (AAM) for mpox has allocated an initial 899 000 vaccine doses for 9 countries across the African region that are hit hard by the current mpox surge. In ...

GENEVA, Nov 11 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization will convene a meeting of its Emergency Committee next week to determine whether mpox remains a global health crisis, it said in a ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Some health officials say mpox cases in Congo appear to be "stabilizing" — a possible sign that the main epidemic for which the World Health Organization made a global ...