Mpox, previously known as monkeypox, is a viral infection that has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons due to its painful symptoms and potential for serious complications.

Africa's CDC has declared mpox a public health emergency as cases are up 160% compared to 2023. What to know about rising virus cases, spread and prevention.

EMA Scientific Guidance, Global Surge in Clade I Mpox, and Aid Shortfalls Drive Urgent Need for Scalable, Equitable Vaccine ...

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency, the highest level of alarm under international health law. It follows a public ...

Mpox looks like its cousin smallpox, but because smallpox was literally wiped off the planet in 1980, very few, if any, Americans have come in direct contact with a person’s body covered in ...

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared mpox a global public health emergency, as U.S. health officials continued to warn about the risk of its spread. The WHO issued an emergency for ...

Congo alone has reported 15,600 mpox cases and 537 deaths, most of them among children under 15, indicating that the nature of the disease and its mode of spread may have changed.

Health workers monitor Mpox patients at the Mpox treatment centre of the Nyiragongo general reference hospital, north of the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on August 16, 2024.

He's talking about mpox, a virus that causes painful blisters and can be fatal. For much of the world, mpox — formerly known as monkeypox — seems like a virus from a few years ago.

Mpox rashes develop three to 17 days after exposure, with symptoms lasting two to three weeks. With chickenpox, the rash will appear within 10 to 21 days, with symptoms lasting four to seven days.

Today, we have mpox vaccines that will be vital to combating the outbreak. Yet these vaccines sit on shelves in wealthy nations far from where they’re most urgently needed. Having cared for ...

In eastern Congo, mpox is infecting people in cities, villages and overcrowded camps that host millions of people displaced by ongoing conflict in the region. More than 17,000 people in Africa ...