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

Congo reported fewer than 100 mpox cases last week, down from nearly 400 in July but infections have risen in Burundi and ...

The World Health Organization says mpox cases in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first ...

The situation has escalated as over 120 countries have reported instances of two variants of the mpox virus, as noted by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Among these ...

Concern is growing over the extent of the spread of the mpox virus in Europe after Germany reported its first case of the new 1b variant. And the head of the drug company Roche said he believes ...

Travellers have been urged to “take extra precautions” when visiting Germany after a highly infectious strain of a potentially deadly virus was detected there ... after a case of the clade Ib variant ...

Travellers have been urged to “take extra precautions” when visiting Germany after a highly infectious strain of a potentially deadly virus was ... clade Ib variant of mpox was confirmed ...

A NEW, more infectious strain of the killer mpox virus has been found in Germany, health chiefs have warned. It comes just weeks after the UK’s decision to stockpile vaccines after a case of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...