The New York State Department of Health issued a health advisory Wednesday about the emergence of a new strain of mpox (formerly monkeypox). The first case of mpox clade Ib in New York State was ...

Kaseya is director general of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He's talking about mpox, a virus that causes painful blisters and can be fatal. For much of the world ...

A new strain of mpox — found in California, Georgia and New Hampshire — has surfaced for the first time in New York, officials announced Wednesday. The individual who tested positive for mpox ...

Jhpiego and the Center for Communication Programs, global aid groups affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, have begun ...

Call for cross-border collaboration to contain mpox spread This research indicates that the new variant is spreading rapidly, primarily through heterosexual contact in densely populated areas. "At ...

A virus originally found in animals, mpox -- which causes the disease of the same name -- is now circulating in humans. Since 2022, it has been the cause of major epidemics spreading outside ...

“The high transmittance rate of the clade 1a Mpox variant is likely due to mutations the virus has picked up – exactly how these impact transmission isn’t currently clear and more research ...

Even as the threat of mpox continues unabated globally, with an increasing number of countries outside the Africa region detecting cases, the scientific community seems divided on whether mpox ...