Mpox, a viral infection that was previously known as monkeypox, is spread primarily through close contact with an infected ...

Split into clade 1a and clade 1b, clade 1b mpox first emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) just over a year ...

Attempts to change the constitution of the Democratic Republic of Congo only exacerbate existing citizen distrust in ...

The World Health Organization will convene a meeting of its Emergency Committee next week to determine whether mpox remains a ...

Press Release - Nineteen African states--those currently reporting or that have reported Mpox cases within this outbreak--gathered in a 'back-to-school' style meeting in Congo Brazzaville in the first ...

In August 2024, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

Press Release - A drug currently approved for smallpox in the U.S. will undergo clinical trials to treat patients infected by the Mpox viruswho are at risk of severe complications in the Democratic ...

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

The WHO declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years in August after a new variant of the ...

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

More than 50,000 people have so far been vaccinated against mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, the World Health Organization's chief said on Friday. The outbreak is still not under ...

Intensifying mpox outbreak as both subclade Ia and Ib strains show signs of sustained human-to-human transmission in Kinshasa ...