For decades after the identification of mpox in humans in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1970, the disease was largely confined to the rural areas of Central and West Africa and thus ...

A SEVENTH case of a deadly mpox strain that kills one in 10 infected ... the patient contracted the virus while on holiday in an African country affected by the outbreak. The infected person ...

To combat the increasing spread of mpox on the central African continent, the health ministry announced on Dec. 19 that it will soon provide the Democratic Republic of the Congo with 50,000 ...

An eighth case of the new deadly mpox strain has been detected in the UK, health officials have said. The clade 1b mutation has been dubbed "the most dangerous one so far" by experts. The ...

For the second time in 2 years, an ongoing mpox outbreak has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by WHO.1 Following the global surge of clade IIb mpox in 2022, African ...

Another case of mpox clade 1b has been detected in England. There have been six confirmed cases of the variant in the UK so far. In August 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a ...

according to data from the African Union’s specialised healthcare agency. The DRC, the epicentre of the ongoing Mpox outbreak in Africa, has recorded 2 707 cases over the past week, of which 516 ...

A global outbreak of a potentially deadly strain of Mpox has raised alarm as cases ... Belgium – travel history to affected African country Canada – travel history to affected African country ...

PESHAWAR: The health department has confirmed second mpox case in a five-month-old child on arrival at Bacha Khan International Airport here on Thursday. Adviser to CM on health Ihtesham Ali has ...

HONG KONG--Chinese health authorities said on Thursday they had detected the new mutated mpox strain clade Ib as the viral infection spreads to more countries after the World Health Organization ...

Pakistan has reported its first mpox case of 2025, identified during screening by Border Health Services staff at the Bacha Khan International Airport in Peshawar. According to the Ministry of ...

Mpox has been endemic in remote ... prompting another declaration of PHEIC in August 2024, a day after the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared a public health ...