A New Hampshire resident who traveled to east Africa returned to the state carrying a disease called clade I mpox. The person is self-isolating and “poses to current risk to the public,” according to ...

A total of 107 people have died in the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa since the beginning of 2025, according to the Africa ...

Mpox is transmitted through close contact, such as sex, skin-to-skin contact and talking or breathing close to another person. The first case of a newer, more spreadable variant of mpox has been ...

Large numbers of mpox cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo and surrounding African countries encouraged this urgent response. Mpox is a viral disease belonging to the smallpox virus family.

Sierra Leone has declared a public health emergency after two cases of mpox were reported. The West African country’s health minister announced the move on Monday after the second case of the ...

The first cases were in October 2024, when a person got sick after returning from African countries where the strain is circulating and then spread mpox to three members of their household.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has detected one imported case of a strain of mpox in an Irish resident who had recently returned to Ireland from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ...

Numerous African nations have been grappling with a spate of clade Ib mpox cases since 2024. Elsewhere, imported instances have emerged in several countries, including Belgium, Canada, France ...

Mpox In Africa: Sierra Leone, a West African country has declared a public health emergency following the confirmation of two mpox cases in the region. The country's Health Minister Austin Demby ...