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

Years of negotiations culminated early Wednesday with countries agreeing the text of a landmark accord on how to tackle ...

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

While the scenario and the virus were completely fictitious, scientists warn the threat of 'zombie viruses' emerging from ...

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

Foreign aid cuts could result in a major outbreak of mpox across the African continent and beyond, with virus control measures already disrupted, public health experts warn.

Results of a new audit by the World Health Organization (WHO) across 108 country offices in low- and lower-middle-income ...

According to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), mpox testing in the DRC has faltered, despite the thousands of suspected cases in the country. It says less than a ...

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 National Medical Products Administration, China's top drug regulator, approved the vaccine for clinical trials in ...

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

STAT senior writer for infectious disease Helen Branswell answers the most frequently asked questions about what is happening with mpox now and what can be done to stop this current outbreak. In ...