The World Health Organization says mpox cases in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first ...

Last week, Africa CDC's director Dr Jean Kaseya said the continent was "still in the acute phase" of the mpox epidemic, with ...

The World Health Organization said 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 ...

The World Health Organization reports that mpox cases are plateauing in Congo's South Kivu region, despite rising numbers in the rest of the country, Burundi, and Uganda. With fewer than 100 confirmed ...

"When the U.S. declared mpox a national health emergency ... with close contact defined as skin-to-skin contact, including ...

Health officials in Britain have detected the country's first confirmed human case of a new strain of mpox that has been ...

Mpox, also known as monkeypox, is an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus, which spreads through close contact. Symptoms include fever, swollen lymph nodes, sore throat, muscle aches, skin ...

The full article is available here as HTML. [ADDIS ABABA] As Africa grapples with multiple outbreaks of mpox, public health leaders say locally produced vaccines are vital to end donation dependence ...

Mpox is mainly spread through close skin-to-skin or mouth-to-skin contact with someone who has it, according to the World Health Organization. It can cause fever, a painful rash and enlarged lymph ...

Common symptoms of mpox are a skin rash or mucosal lesions which can last 2–4 weeks accompanied by fever, headache, muscle aches, back pain, low energy, and swollen lymph nodes. Extracellular ...

Infections from clade II mpox are less severe. More than 99.9% of people survive. Clade II is endemic to West Africa. The disease is most often spread through close, skin-to-skin contact with ...

Scientists later changed the name to Mpox for accuracy reasons, with experts suggesting the virus originated from rodents. The UK government lists the symptoms as: A skin rash with blisters ...