The global eradication of smallpox more than 40 years ago was one of the greatest achievements in public health history, vanquishing a cause of death, blindness and disfigurement that had plagued ...

Mpox clade I, which is proving to be more serious in certain African countries, has been confirmed in a person outside New ...

A virus originally found in animals, mpox – which causes the disease of the same name – is now circulating in humans. Since ...

A more infectious strain of mpox that triggered a public health emergency across Central and Eastern Africa last year has ...

Officials did not identify the individual, but a health alert sent to physicians on Wednesday said the individual resides in a county outside New York City.

This is the first known case in New York State, including New York City. According to the DOH, the specimen came from a ...

The New York State Department of Health on Tuesday confirmed its first case of the new mpox strain, adding to the global ...

Twelve new mpox vaccination sites have opened across England, health officials announced on Monday. The move, which comes ...

The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday that a person diagnosed with clade1b mpox in New York ...

A person in New Hampshire is the first in the state and third in the United States to contract a variant of the viral disease ...

How does the vaccine work? “Mpox is caused by an infection with the mpox virus, so the mpox vaccine can give good protection against the virus. It is given as an injection,” explains Brady.

The type of mpox that is causing concern in Africa is caused by Clade I mpox, both Clade Ia and Ib. This is different from Clade IIb which caused the global outbreak in 2022-2023, mainly affecting ...