Health authorities have struggled to contain outbreaks of mpox in Congo, a huge central African country where a myriad of ...

Mpox was formerly known as monkeypox and it is related to small pox. This column ran in its original form in August 2022 ... government response was slow, full of errors and unsuccessful.

But it does not provide full protection, and experts are studying why some vaccinated people have gotten mpox and how long immunity ... officials stress that this form of transmission is uncommon ...

The World Health Organization declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency on Wednesday, ...

Read full article: Rain returns to end work week ... published research showing a new form of mpox that may be less deadly but more transmissible. The noted mutations suggested it was “more ...

The previous outbreak in the U.S. and Europe was driven by the clade II form of the virus ... SFDPH's full statement to ...

Medical facilities that provide treatment to gay and bisexual men in some East African countries are already collaborating with them to prevent the spread of a new wave of mpox cases after the ...

Earlier this year, scientists reported the emergence of a new form of the deadlier form of mpox, which can kill up to 10% of people, in a Congolese mining town that they feared might spread more ...

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization has declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere ... in more than a dozen countries and a new form of the virus spreading.