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 ...

The UK Health Security Agency (HSA) today reported another clade 1b mpox case, marking the country's ninth since October 2024 ...

What is mpox and can I get a vaccine? - Despite the UKHSA stating that the risk of mpox is currently low, the UK is actively ...

"In the context of the outbreak in parts of Africa, we expect to see the occasional imported case of clade Ib mpox in the UK, ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...