US Health officials have confirmed the first case of a new form of mpox. The infected person had traveled to eastern Africa ...

Mpox is a disease caused by the highly infectious monkeypox virus. It's quite easily passed on from one person to another.

Origins and Basics Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) is a viral illness that belongs to the same family as smallpox. First identified in Denmark in 1958 among two colonies of monkeys kept for ...

The African Union's health watchdog said Thursday it has endorsed an mpox test from Morocco, hailing it as a "major milestone" to help combat the outbreak on the continent. The announcement comes ...

It’s crucial to understand how mpox is transmitted, the symptoms of the virus and how it can be treated and prevented, says ...

Several African and ex-Soviet countries have expressed interest in buying Russia's vaccine against smallpox and mpox viruses, as well as testing systems and antiviral treatments, Russia's consumer ...

An initial 899,000 vaccine doses have been allocated for nine countries across Africa that have been hit hard by the current mpox surge ... will go to the Central African Republic, Ivory Coast ...

The two new cases are household contacts of the first case, an unidentified person who had recently traveled to African ...

Major outbreaks of mpox occurred between 1996 and 1997 in the DRC and sporadic cases occurred in other African countries in the following decades. Cases have been reported in Benin, Cameroon ...