A hospital is checking if patients have been exposed to mpox - formerly known as monkeypox - after a person with the ...

Mpox can be lethal, especially for children under five years old. The mortality rate for clade I is between 3% and 10%. The ...

A key vaccine advisory committee is meeting for the first time under new U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a ...

A chance discovery led to the identification of a possible natural reservoir for the virus formerly known as monkeypox ...

A team of researchers traced the wild animal source of the mpox virus to the fire-footed rope squirrel Funisciurus pyrropus ...

STAT senior writer for infectious disease Helen Branswell answers the most frequently asked questions about what is happening with mpox now and what can be done to stop this current outbreak. In ...

Another case of the potentially serious mpox virus has been found in the north east of England, in what could be the first ...

A new case of mpox has been discovered in the UK but the patient has not travelled or any reported links with previously ...

Since eradicating smallpox, only rare outbreaks of related viruses appeared. But today, mpox, once confined mainly to rural parts of Africa, is spreading globally, and the reasons behind this ...

According to a letter published in Nature Medicine, Mpox has the potential to become a significant global health threat if taken too lightly, according to scientists at the University of Surrey.

Moroto district is on high alert following the outbreak of mpox disease. This was revealed on Friday by the Moroto district health department after a 28-year-old businesswoman from Singila Trading ...

MPOX has the potential to become a significant global threat if international action isn't taken now, warn scientists. Mpox is a viral infection caused by a virus that belongs to the same family ...