A University of Manitoba expert is a vital part of an international team of scientists studying the alarming changes in the spread of mpox across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to better ...

NanoViricides, Inc., a publicly traded company (NYSE Amer.:NNVC) (the “Company”), and a clinical stage, leading global pioneer in the development of broad-spectrum antivirals based on host-mimetic ...

Initially, close physical contact with an infected person was the recognised mode of contracting the virus. With the emergence of various subclades (Clade 1a and 1b, Clade 2a and 2b) of MPXV, sexual ...

The current mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone is the largest ever recorded in the country and the first major epidemic caused by the clade IIb monkeypox virus in Africa. Since a public health emergency ...

As of 17 June 2025, there have been over 4,000 confirmed cases of mpox and 25 deaths in Sierra Leone, raising the possibility that the virus will spread to neighbouring countries and spark a larger ...

The Conversation Africa asked Jia Kangbai, an infectious-diseases epidemiologist at Njala University in Freetown, what's behind the upsurge and how it can be stopped.

Sierra Leoneans are worried by the increasing number of mpox cases and deaths that have been recorded in 2025.

With the emergence of various subclades (Clade 1a and 1b, Clade 2a and 2b) of MPXV, sexual transmission of mpox has been documented in several studies . What's behind the recent outbreak in Sierra ...

Analysis - As of 17 June 2025, there have been over 4,000 confirmed cases of mpox and 25 deaths in Sierra Leone, raising the possibility that the virus will spread to neighbouring countries and ...

The mpox PHEIC therefore represents a major test for global health post-COVID-19 in a new era of collapsing multilateralism and heavily constrained health financing. The strengthening of African ...

This report describes three cases of clade Ib MPXV infection in pregnant women (one in each trimester of gestation) with molecular and histopathological evidence of transplacental transmission.