As African countries continue to grapple with multiple mpox outbreaks involving different clades and transmission patterns, ...

Africa's CDC has declared mpox a public health emergency as cases are up 160% compared to 2023. What to know about rising virus cases, spread and prevention.

European Medicines Agency Supports Streamlined Development Pathway for GEO-MVA Vaccine Candidate via a Single Phase 3 ...

Officials at the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) have reported an increase in high-risk events, saying many countries on the continent are currently experiencing multiple ...

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency, the highest level of alarm under international health law. It follows a public ...

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared mpox a global public health emergency, as U.S. health officials continued to warn about the risk of its spread. The WHO issued an emergency for ...

Is there an mpox outbreak? Congo and surrounding countries have had worsening outbreaks since 2023. Just in 2024, central and eastern Africa have had over 17,000 infections and more than 500 ...

Mpox first originated in wild animals in the jungles of west and central Africa. On occasion, it has made the jump to humans. The first known human case of mpox was detected in 1970 in a 9-year ...

Mpox looks like its cousin smallpox, but because smallpox was literally wiped off the planet in 1980, very few, if any, Americans have come in direct contact with a person’s body covered in ...

Congo is struggling to contain its biggest mpox outbreak, and scientists say a new form of the disease detected in a mining town might more easily spread among people. Since January, Congo has ...

The current outbreak in Africa stems from a different, more dangerous mpox variant compared to the last outbreak in 2022. There are no confirmed cases of the strain in the U.S.

A new study from UCLA published Thursday found the mpox public health campaign in 2022 was successful but that cases are still occurring at low levels in the U.S.