Due to the alarming surge in cases of mpox (formerly referred to as monkeypox), the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared the disease a public health emergency on Tuesday.

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 ...

Of reported mpox cases, 30.7% occurred in Black males, 29.5% in Hispanic males, and 27.9% in White males. In August of 2022 — the height of the outbreak in the United States — disease incidences among ...

Long known as a virus confined to rural areas, mpox has reached Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

[NBC News] 7. Vaccines are available to the most at-risk Americans and are on their way to African countries. Vaccines ...

Few Americans saw it ... Health Organization declared mpox a global health emergency after identifying rapid spread of the Clade 1b variant across several African nations. This strain is ...

Despite the homophobic climate in Uganda amid the fight against mpox, Grace noted many LGBTQ organizations have proactively ...

African Union's health watchdog endorses an mpox test from Morocco. [Getty Images] The African Union's health watchdog said Thursday it has endorsed an mpox test from Morocco, hailing it as a ...

Last August, WHO declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years after an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Clade lb began spreading in the African ...