Four cases of the Clade 1b variant have been confirmed in the UK, all of them belonging to the same household, and health ...

WHO has allocated 899,000 mpox vaccine doses to nine African nations, prioritising those hit hardest by the latest outbreak.

Formerly known as monkeypox, mpox is a viral disease similar to smallpox that can cause flu-like symptoms and a painful rash.

Intensifying mpox outbreak as both subclade Ia and Ib strains show signs of sustained human-to-human transmission in Kinshasa ...

In August 2024, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

The WHO has allocated 899,000 mpox vaccine doses to nine African countries that have been impacted the most by the disease’s ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global health emergency over a new strain of mpox that is spreading rapidly in Africa.

Pregnant women and infants are at risk should they contract mpox but there are no approved vaccines for this population.

The two most commonly used shots currently are MVA-BN and LC16; during the global outbreak of clade 2 mpox, it was the former that was deployed in Britain, under the brand name Imvanex. The DRC ...

Last week African countries reported 2,532 new mpox cases, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Burundi, ...

when a nine-year-old boy living in the DRC developed a nasty rash that reminded doctors of smallpox. Scientists have identified two major strains – or clades – of mpox in Africa. Clade 1 is ...