An urgent health alert has been issued after a rare virus, acquired from overseas, was detected in a returned traveller to ...

Monkeypox virus is found near rainforests in Central and West Africa and causes disease in humans and monkeys, although its natural hosts are rodents. It is capable of human to human transmission.

Monkeypox is “rarely fatal,” but it can bring on serious symptoms, the CDC says, including fevers, headaches, muscle aches and backaches, swollen lymph nodes, chills and exhaustion.

Monkeypox is a much less severe, less contagious cousin of smallpox. Both are orthopoxviruses, a genus of 12 DNA viruses that also includes cowpox and camelpox.

Monkeypox is a poxvirus, related to smallpox and cowpox. It generally causes pimple- or blister-like lesions and flu-like symptoms such as fever, according to the US Centers for Disease Control ...

What To Watch For. Experts warn it may be too late to stop monkeypox from gaining a permanent foothold in countries like the U.S. The monkeypox virus is known to spread among various animals and ...

Gambia has confirmed its first case of Mpox, the viral disease formerly known as monkeypox, according to a statement released Tuesday by the country’s Ministry of Health. The infection was detected ...

More than 25,800 cases of monkeypox have been recorded worldwide. Mayor Eric Adams declared monkeypox a public health emergency in New York City on Saturday, after saying in May he was not worried ...

But monkeypox isn’t SARS-CoV-2. We have many decades of understanding of the virus, and most critically, we have existing vaccines and treatments that we can use to help curb the outbreak.

The expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an "extraordinary" situation that qualifies as a global emergency, the World Health Organization chief said Saturday, a declaration ...

Monkeypox symptoms include headache, muscle aches, exhaustion, fever, backache, the swelling of lymph nodes and chills. Within one to three days, a rash and lesions can also develop, according to ...

As monkeypox cases mount and the disease spreads, some people might have déjà vu — here comes another potentially life-disrupting virus. Although monkeypox first surfaced more than six decades ...