The African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has warned that the deteriorating humanitarian situation ...

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 ...

For decades after the identification of mpox in humans in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1970, the disease was largely confined to the rural areas of Central and West Africa and thus ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency of international concern in August 2024, a day after ...

Background Mpox emerged as a significant global public health concern during the 2022–2023 outbreak, impacting populations in ...

UK health officials have confirmed an eighth case of mpox has been detected in the country after being blamed for being ...

The African Union's (AU) public health agency released an advisory Thursday noting that 5,842 cases of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) had been recorded in 21 countries, with 38 deaths.

The NHS has urged three groups of people to come forward for an important vaccine as a new case of a potentially deadly virus ...

The war - concentrated in Congo’s eastern city of Goma where 3 million people live - exponentially raises the risk of ...

Every area in England will be able to offer jabs against mpox after 12 new vaccination sites opened. Health officials ...

Mpox has been endemic in remote, rural areas of Africa for decades but has attracted relatively little attention until the global outbreak that began in 2022. In July of that year, I declared a ...

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has warned that the worsening humanitarian situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) hampers the fight against ...