These days a new concern is on the minds of its visitors: mpox. The first human case of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, was described in the 1970s. The disease is thought to be caused by a ...

Girls and young women may be more susceptible to an infectious subvariant of the virus that causes mpox that has spread from Democratic Republic of Congo to neighboring countries, a study showed ...

Lwiro, a small settlement in eastern Congo surrounded by banana and cassava fields, sits at the center of a spiraling epidemic caused by a new version of the Mpox virus—one that is ...

Your support makes all the difference. The World Health Organisation declared mpox a public health emergency of global concern in August – the second time it had done so in two years – after ...

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche said Wednesday that it was increasing its capacity to produce diagnostic tests to detect mpox, amid a flare-up of the potentially deadly virus. "We've ramped up ...

This comes as more than 100,000 cases of mpox and at least 200 deaths have been confirmed globally, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, with the WHO declaring it a ...

A new, more infectious strain of the potentially deadly mpox virus has been found in Germany for the first time, health chiefs in the country have said. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Germany's ...

What if the new strain of mpox, which is especially virulent, continues spreading in Africa and beyond? What if this year’s flu combines with the dreaded H5N1 bird flu and emerges as a nightmare ...

More contagious Clade Ib a cause of concern, mpox cases seen in 120 countries An mpox patient. As of October 17, 2024, WHO data states that the death toll from mpox has risen to 1,100 people ...

An infection with the new mpox variant clade 1b has been detected in Germany for the first time, the Robert Koch Institute health authority said on Tuesday. The infection occurred abroad and was ...