The World Health Organization will convene a meeting later this month to determine whether the mpox outbreak occurring in ...

Attempts to change the constitution of the Democratic Republic of Congo only exacerbate existing citizen distrust in ...

Split into clade 1a and clade 1b, clade 1b mpox first emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) just over a year ...

No FDA-approved rapid tests exist that specifically test for H5N1, and the first near-point-of-care test for mpox was ...

Four cases of the more infectious variant of mpox have been reported in the U.K., making it the first cluster of infections ...

In August 2024, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

Mpox, a viral infection that was previously known as monkeypox, is spread primarily through close contact with an infected ...

More than 1,800 laboratory-confirmed cases of mpox (the new name for monkeypox) were reported in Africa from October 20 to ...

The Access and Allocation Mechanism (AAM) for mpox has allocated an initial 899 000 vaccine doses for 9 countries across the African region that are hit hard by the current mpox surge.

Nineteen African states—those currently reporting or that have reported Mpox cases within this outbreak—gathered in a ‘back-to-school’ style meeting in Congo Brazzaville in the first week of November.

The WHO declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years in August after a new variant of the ...

The spread of mpox has slowed down slightly across Africa but the epidemic is not over, the African Union's health watchdog ...