The World Health Organization declared an ultra-deadly strain of monkeypox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years. Officials said Wednesday that an outbreak of the ...

Update (November 28): The World Health Organization announced today that, to avoid the potential for racist and stigmatizing language, it will begin using the term “mpox” for the disease and will ...

Even though the virus was first discovered in laboratory monkeys in 1958, the original source came from a squirrel.

The Biden Administration announced Thursday that the U.S. is declaring monkeypox a public health emergency, following behind the World Health Organization, which declared the virus a public health ...

Monkeypox, or MPOX, is no longer a global health emergency, the World Health Organization declared Thursday after a nearly one-year-long alert for the disease that resulted in 87,000 confirmed ...

The WHO's interim guidance on social and behavioral research for the mpox response emphasizes the integration of ethical, ...

After nine cases of mpox were confirmed in the UK, health officials downgraded the risk of the virus from "high consequence ...

not just for one group,” in reference to the World Health Organization (WHO) reporting that the most cases of monkeypox were detected in men who have with other men. Salinas has also announced ...

Two vaccines – Imvamune and ACAM2000 – have been recommended against Monkeypox. On July 23, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Monkeybox a global health emergency. At the time more ...