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 ...

Mpox, previously known as monkeypox, is a zoonotic viral disease typically found in Central and West Africa. The Clade 1b variant, however, appears to have adapted to spread more efficiently ...

France has detected its first clade 1b mpox case, making it the eleventh country outside Africa to identify the virus. The virus originates from Central Africa and poses a severe threat with a ...

primarily affecting areas in which mpox is endemic in the DRC, along with clade II in Nigeria and other countries in West and Central Africa and continued cases of clade IIb worldwide ...

Britain has been stockpiling new Mpox vaccines since the WHO declared it a global threat. The virus emerged in west Africa and clade 2 was responsible for the 2022 outbreak, which has led to ...

The UK has been proactively stockpiling vaccines against Mpox after the World Health Organization designated it a global health crisis. Originating in West Africa, clade 2 was identified as the ...

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 ...

and clade I is the cause of a current outbreak in Central and Eastern Africa. Clade II mpox is endemic to West Africa. After a peak in cases in the summer of 2022, the number of cases of the clade ...

A SEVENTH case of a deadly mpox strain that kills one in 10 infected people has been detected in the UK. A mutation of the disease, Clade 1b has ... of Central and West Africa, near tropical ...

previously called the West Africa clade; clade II further has two subclades: clade IIa and clade IIb. Clade 1b mpox was first detected in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in central Africa ...

The new variant of Mpox called, Clade Ib has been circulating among many countries outside of Africa as well. As pre recent news reports, France has also identified its first case of new mpox ...

For the second time in 2 years, an ongoing mpox outbreak has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by WHO.1 Following the global surge of clade IIb mpox in 2022, African ...