The World Health Organization says 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 ...

GENEVA, Nov 11 — The World Health Organisation will convene a meeting of its Emergency Committee next week to determine ...

AP reports on the new U.K. cluster, noting that scientists say public risk remains low. Other global health news is on cigarettes in the U.K., a social media ban in Australia, the future of cancer ...

The countries are the Central African Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda. The largest number of doses – 85% of the ...

Pregnant women and infants are at risk should they contract mpox but there are no approved vaccines for this population.

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

Four men have been diagnosed with Trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII since spring. Also, whooping cough cases — almost 20,000 — are almost back to pre-pandemic levels; California and Washington ...

But in the United States, mpox vaccines are out of reach for many people who need them. In the 2022 outbreak that reached this country, doses of the mpox vaccine, Jynneos, were made available for free ...