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

Hospitalization risk for severe mpox disease was significantly higher in patients with vs without HIV coinfection.

The FDA has approved a new freeze-dried formulation of Jynneos (smallpox and mpox vaccine, live, non-replicating).

On a humid January morning in 2023, deep in the heart of Côte d’Ivoire’s Taï National Park, a baby monkey fell ill. Its skin ...

Even though the virus was first discovered in laboratory monkeys in 1958, the original source came from a squirrel.

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, ...

A team of researchers traced the wild animal source of the mpox virus to the fire-footed rope squirrel Funisciurus pyrropus ...

A highly virulent Mpox Clade 1b case with no travel history has been detected in the UK, raising concerns about the silent ...

Vancouver Coastal Health says there's been a recent spike in mpox, the viral infection also known as monkeypox.

Mpox is caused by a virus from the same family as smallpox, manifesting in a high fever and skin lesions, called vesicles. First identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1970, the disease ...

Many types of viruses start spreading rapidly in changing weather. One such virus is norovirus, which spreads rapidly. Recently, more than 200 people were found infected with norovirus on a luxury ...

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