Mpox can be lethal, especially for children under five years old. The mortality rate for clade I is between 3% and 10%. The ...

For decades, the human niche for viruses related to smallpox has remained mostly empty. Since eradicating smallpox, only rare ...

An advisory panel on vaccines meets, carefully, in the shadow of a health secretary who has often criticized it.

All previous mpox cases in the UK were found in someone who travelled to an affected country or knew someone who had ...

One of the great mysteries of the monkeypox virus has been pinpointing its ‘reservoir’ hosts — the animals that carry and ...

Insufficient research on mpox hinders effective control strategies, emphasizing the need to understand its transmission and ...

Mpox has the potential to become a significant global health threat if taken too lightly, according to scientists.

Kenya on Thursday received 10,700 doses of mpox vaccines, a boost to its efforts against the spread of the disease.The go ...

The retrospective observational study reported by Emile Malembi and colleagues in The Lancet1 provides a comprehensive clinical description of mpox cases caused by ongoing outbreaks in the DR Congo, ...

The WHO simulation exercise looked at how countries reacted in the wake of another pandemic, five years on from Covid ...

An independent vaccine advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met to discuss and vote on ...

Health chiefs have launched an investigation after they found a new case of mpox in a patient living in the North East of ...