Most European cases have been reported in people who had travelled to parts of Africa with ongoing mpox outbreaks. View on ...

A preliminary study traces an mpox outbreak in a group of Ivory Coast monkeys to the fire-footed squirrel, indicating the ...

A major hospital is checking if patients have been exposed to mpox - formerly known as monkeypox - after a person with the ...

Health bosses at the Cambridge-based hospital said they had alerted 30 patients over possible exposure to the nasty bug - a ...

Mpox can be lethal, especially for children under five years old. The mortality rate for clade I is between 3% and 10%. The ...

A case of Clade Ib mpox virus has been confirmed in the North East of England, but no links have been found to other known ...

All previous mpox cases in the UK were found in someone who travelled to an affected country or knew someone who had ...

One of the great mysteries of the monkeypox virus has been pinpointing its ‘reservoir’ hosts — the animals that carry and ...

The WHO simulation exercise looked at how countries reacted in the wake of another pandemic, five years on from Covid ...

Mpox is a viral infection caused by a virus that belongs to the same family as smallpox. The virus can cause a painful rash, fever, and swollen glands and, in some cases, lead to more serious illness.

The United Kingdom has identified another case of a contagious new strain of mpox, making it the latest European country to report an infection. The new strain has infected thousands of people in ...