These cases resulted in 1492 deaths (case fatality rate, 3.3%). From 2022 to 2024, weekly laboratory-confirmed mpox cases increased by a factor of 2.8 (from 176 to 489 cases), whereas all weekly ...

The global eradication of smallpox more than 40 years ago was one of the greatest achievements in public health history, vanquishing a cause of death, blindness and disfigurement that had plagued ...

2 As of January 9, 2025, 14 deaths from mpox out of 4687 confirmed cases (case fatality rate, 0.3%) have been reported from Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya combined. 3 It remains unclear the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency of international concern in August 2024, a day after ...

Despite widespread exposure, residents in a Kentucky nursing home in 2023 did not contract mpox from an infected worker, ...

The Trump administration is limiting the nation’s ability to respond to infectious disease as Marburg, Ebola rise ...

Fighting between Rwanda-backed rebels and the Congolese army has placed millions of people at high risk of death from the ...

Bird flu was first detected in domestic birds in 1996 in Southern China and has since spread to wild birds, mammals, and ...

Maharashtra reports 19 suspected Guillain-Barré Syndrome GBS cases and 1 death Learn about symptoms causes rapid response efforts and precautionary measures ...

The H5N1 bird flu, which just caused its first human fatality in the U.S., has largely been tracked at the federal level by ...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's second case of mpox in 2025 has been detected at the Bacha Khan International Airport, bringing the ...

For the second time in 2 years, an ongoing mpox outbreak has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by WHO.1 Following the global surge of clade IIb mpox in 2022, African ...