The first known case in the United States of a more severe strain of the monkeypox virus was confirmed in California Saturday. AP The first known case in the United States of a more severe strain of ...

A new mpox outbreak is driving a "do not comply" movement among conspiracy theorists who fear that health-related lockdowns will affect this year's presidential election. On Wednesday, the World ...

In 2022, the medical establishment and public health world nixed the name "monkeypox" for two key reasons. Animal-to-human transmission comes from rodents. And the name "monkeypox" was seen as racist ...

Scientists have located and identified alterations in the monkeypox virus genome that potentially correlate with changes in the virus's transmissibility observed in the 2022 outbreak. Mount Sinai ...

BALTIMORE -- The World Health Organization declared that the increasing spread of mpox in Africa, also known as monkeypox, is a global health emergency. Doctors are warning that the virus might ...

Demetre Daskalakis, an official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), resigned this week, claiming the Trump administration's policies ignore science. However, his own leadership ...

Years after scientists retired the term “monkeypox” for being inaccurate and stigmatizing, the federal government has started using it again for no clear reason. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes ...

Unverified data about events after vaccinations is not evidence that the vaccine caused the event, as suggested in social media posts making the false claim that the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

Wastewater in Pierce County returned positive results of clade 1 mpox virus, known as monkeypox, following testing on Sept. 24 by the University of Washington (UW) and Washington State Department of ...