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 cause of major epidemics spreading outside endemic ...

New York Health Dept. reports first case of mpox clade Ib strain in the state and reminds at-risk individuals about the ...

A man from New Hampshire was identified with having mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, after traveling, according to the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services. The man, from ...

The person diagnosed with mpox in New Hampshire has clade I mpox, one of two clades, or genetic types, of the virus. The variety at the center of a 2022 outbreak in the U.S. was clade II ...

A New Hampshire resident has been diagnosed with clade I mpox, one of two types of the virus formerly called monkeypox, following a trip to eastern Africa, state health officials said Friday.

The escalating violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has affected testing for the infectious mpox virus disease, which has afflicted thousands in the country and the wider region.

For more information about mpox, visit the DHHS mpox webpage. “The mpox virus is spread primarily through direct physical contact with someone who has mpox and has developed an infectious skin ...

"The mpox virus is spread primarily through direct physical contact with someone who has mpox and has developed an infectious skin rash," said state epidemiologist Dr. Benjamin Chan. "Public ...

“And, most importantly, follow isolation guidelines to prevent spreading the virus to others until you are no longer contagious.” “Mpox is caused by an infection with the mpox ...