The DR Congo's capital Kinshasa needs more than double the mpox vaccines it currently has to immunise all the city's at-risk ...

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has detected a single confirmed human case of Clade Ib mpox, (monkey pox) but it has ...

The first case of a new infectious and potentially deadly strain of mpox has been reported in the UK. The strain, known as ...

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

Four cases of the more infectious variant of mpox have been reported in the UK, making it the first cluster of infections that have surfaced outside of Africa.

In an early sign that the mpox outbreak in Africa might be ebbing, some health officials report that case counts seem to be stabilizing in the Congo, the epicenter of the outbreak.

Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, is a viral infection that spreads through close person to person contact. There are different strains of the virus, but the two major ones are Clade 1 and Clade 2.

Mpox vaccines are available to men who are gay, bisexual or have sex with other men, and who have multiple partners, ...

We can confirm 2 additional cases of Clade Ib mpox. The affected individuals are household contacts of the first UK case. The risk to the UK population remains low. Read the news story here ...

Two more cases of a new strain of the mpox virus have been detected in London, in household contacts of the first patient, ...

Britain has detected two more cases of the new mpox variant clade Ib in household contacts of the first case, the country's ...

The overall risk to the UK population remains low, Professor Hopkins said. Image: An mpox vaccination is given to a man in the Democratic Republic of Congo in October. File pic: Reuters The agency ...