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.

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

As of this summer, the CDC still considers the risk of mpox to the general public in the U.S. very low, but said the risk is slightly higher among men who have sex with men. During the global ...

Mpox could spread into conflict zones in ... The civil war in Tigray that lasted from November 2020 to November 2022 involved the federal government of Ethiopia imposing a blockade on the entire ...

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 ...

August 19 The Philippines reported its first case of mpox this year in a 33-year-old man with no history of travel outside the country, the Department of Health said, later adding that the case is ...

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 ...

Geneva — The mpox outbreak is not another COVID-19, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, because much is already known about the virus and the means to control it.

Travelers who got vaccinated for mpox in the wake of the 2022 outbreak don’t need a booster at the moment, according to Schaffner. “It looks as though your protection will still be viable, and ...

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 ...

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.

The New York State Department of Health issued a health advisory about the emergence of a new strain of mpox (formerly monkeypox). The person had recently traveled from Africa.