Travelers are being advised to stay vigilant due to the spread of Marburg, Mpox, and Oropouche viruses that have spread ...

The World Health Organization Tuesday granted emergency use authorization for the second mpox vaccine. The LC16m8 vaccine ...

Since September, over 31,000 confirmed cases of this strain of mpox have been documented globally, with the majority concentrated in three African countries: Burundi, Uganda, and the Democratic ...

Major outbreaks of mpox occurred between 1996 and 1997 in the DRC and sporadic cases occurred in other African countries in the following decades. Cases have been reported in Benin, Cameroon ...

California recently reported the first U.S. case of a more severe form of mpox. Doctors are encouraging Americans not to panic about mpox even after a recent severe case was detected in California ...

The epidemic in Africa continues to grow, prompting fears of another outbreak in the U.S. But the vaccine is no longer free, and vulnerable people are going without.

Twenty African countries have seen more than 59,000 reported mpox cases including 1,164 deaths so far this year, according to Africa CDC data.

In August, the WHO declared that the mpox scenario on the African continent constituted a PHEIC due to the risk of global spread and a potential new pandemic. At a press conference in Geneva at ...

The Independent is trusted by Americans ... in three African countries — Burundi, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since then, cases of travelers with the new mpox form have ...

Mpox is caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV). A global outbreak of clade IIb began in 2022 and continues to this day, including in some African countries. There are also growing outbreaks of ...

The two new cases are household contacts of the first case, an unidentified person who had recently traveled to African nations, which have been experiencing community spread of the Clade Ib mpox ...

Three genera of African rodent, Graphiurus (African dormice), Cricetomys (giant pouched rat) and Funisciurus (African striped squirrel), have been named as likely reservoirs of the mpox virus.