Officials did not identify the individual, but a health alert sent to physicians on Wednesday said the individual resides in a county outside New York City.

The type of mpox that is causing concern in Africa is caused by Clade I mpox, both Clade Ia and Ib. This is different from Clade IIb which caused the global outbreak in 2022-2023, mainly affecting ...

The global eradication of smallpox more than 40 years ago was one of the greatest achievements in public health history, vanquishing a cause of death, blindness and disfigurement that had plagued ...

A virus originally found in animals, mpox – which causes the disease of the same name – is now circulating in humans. Since ...

A person in New Hampshire is the first in the state and third in the United States to contract a variant of the viral disease ...

A virus originally found in animals, mpox – which causes the disease of the same name – is now circulating in humans. Since 2022, it has been the ...

Clade I mpox historically has caused more severe illness than clade II mpox, which is the type that caused a global outbreak that began in 2022. Clade I mpox outbreaks have had death rates of up ...

The HSE added that those who have received two doses of the mpox vaccine or previously had the virus , are considered to have protection against severe illness caused by the newer variant. Director of ...

The HSE added that those who have received two doses of the mpox vaccine or previously had the virus , are considered to have protection against severe illness caused by the newer variant.

There are two subtypes of the mpox virus. Clade II, which is endemic in West Africa, caused the global outbreak that had health authorities on high alert in Europe and North America in 2022.