Mpox strains are still mutating, further raising the risk of spread both in Africa and globally, Africa Centres for Disease ...

British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged ...

The spread of mpox has slowed down slightly across Africa but the epidemic is not over, the African Union's health watchdog ...

Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, drew global attention in 2022 during an outbreak that affected the U.S., Europe, Australia and many other countries. The virus comes in two distinct forms or "clades ...

Four cases of the more infectious variant of mpox have been reported in the U.K., making it the first cluster of infections ...

The World Health Organisation and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have committed to guiding the ...

This year, 19 countries in Africa have reported mpox, many of them newly affected by the viral disease. The epicentre of the outbreak remains the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with over 38 000 ...

(AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa) KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The number of mpox-related deaths in Africa has surpassed 1,000, the head of the continent’s top public health agency said Thursday, warning of ...

London: Two new cases of the mpox variant clade 1b detected in the UK are the first locally transmitted cases in Europe and the first outside Africa, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.

Emergent BioSolutions, one of only three companies with a vaccine for mpox, has agreed to donate 50,000 doses of its shot for use in the current outbreak concentrated in central Africa ...

The rapid spread of a new variant of mpox – previously known as monkeypox – has prompted the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to declare a public health emergency.