Two years ago, cases of the infectious viral disease mpox were rapidly increasing in cities across the globe — particularly in the U.S. — causing a scramble for vaccine doses to help contain ...

Asia confirmed its first case of the newer mpox variant linked to a growing outbreak in Africa on Thursday, only the second time the virus has been found outside of Africa as countries worldwide ...

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency. WHO convened its emergency committee amid concerns that a deadlier strain of ...

In 2022, concern grew when cases started spreading in Europe and in North America. Broader international spread is a key reason why mpox has been declared a global health emergency, but the ...

A strain of mpox disease that had previously been undetected in the U.S. has been found in California, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. California's health department ...

A high-ranking World Health Organization official flatly said, “Mpox is not the new COVID.’’ But with the discovery of new cases outside Africa as an emerging strain there appears more ...

The mpox outbreaks in Africa are a global emergency, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen countries, the World Health Organization declared Wednesday. The ...

Sweden reported the first case outside Africa. By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva Mandavilli covered the 2022 mpox outbreak and the Covid-19 pandemic. Faced once again with a rapidly spreading epidemic ...

The video dates back to May 2023, when the declaration of mpox as a global health emergency was lifted. The WHO declared mpox a global health emergency for the second time in August 2024 ...