A preliminary study traces an mpox outbreak in a group of Ivory Coast monkeys to the fire-footed squirrel, indicating the ...

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

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

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

The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday, April 18, assured the public that the Mpox cases reported by the Davao City Health ...

Something very similar has now happened with clade I. Clade I virus caused 14,626 mpox cases and 654 deaths in 2023. Doctors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been battling to ...

Though less severe than smallpox, mpox can cause serious illness and, in some cases, death especially in vulnerable individuals or when associated with more dangerous viral clades. Currently ...

There are two main clades of the Mpox virus: Clade I and Clade II. While Clade II was the cause of the worldwide outbreaks in 2022-23 and is said to be fairly less dangerous, Clade I, including ...

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

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