On 13 August 2024, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) declared mpox a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security. 1 The following day, the WHO declared the ...

The newly discovered strain is a mix between two different types of the highly infectious disease.

A new mpox strain, clade I mpox-Ib, has been identified in the UK, raising concerns due to its historical association with ...

The UKHSA has detected an inter-clade recombinant mpox virus in England; vaccines remain effective and risk to the public is ...

Experts say the new strain highlights the virus's ability to evolve, and urge at-risk groups to get vaccinated as a precaution.

Spain Mpox Alert: The case which is documented in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases identified the person as a 49-year-old man who had received two doses of the IMVANEX small box or ...

Health officials in Spain have documented the first-ever case of human-to-human transmission of mpox clade 1b outside endemic regions in Africa. Mpox is a viral infectious disease that spreads through ...