The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared an international health emergency over a large and rapidly expanding outbreak of mpox that is spilling out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency, the highest level of alarm under international health law. It follows a public health ...

LONDON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization has declared that an outbreak of mpox, a viral infection that spreads through close contact, represents a global health emergency for the ...

The World Health Organization last week declared mpox (previously monkeypox) to be a global health emergency. The disease experienced a global outbreak in 2022, which subsided in Europe, Asia and the ...

The U.S. saw more than 20,000 mpox cases and nearly six dozen deaths during the 2022 global mpox outbreak. San Francisco was hard hit. Today, mpox remains an ongoing public health emergency, according ...

Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.71. The mpox outbreak in several African nations has slowed and countries ...

The alarming surge in human-to-human transmission of monkeypox virus (MPXV) infections, particularly in high-risk, sexually active, and reproductive-age populations, along with the known association ...

Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) is a viral infection caused by the mpox virus. It’s a milder, less serious relative of the virus that causes smallpox. If you’ve been exposed to it, within 3 weeks ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency last week on August 14, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than ...

Amelia MacIntyre, DO, is a board-certified family medicine physician. She is certified in osteopathic medicine. Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, is a viral infection that causes painful rashes ...