These cases resulted in 1492 deaths (case fatality rate, 3.3%). From 2022 to 2024, weekly laboratory-confirmed mpox cases increased by a factor of 2.8 (from 176 to 489 cases), whereas all weekly ...

Twelve new mpox vaccination sites have opened across England, health officials announced on Monday. The move, which comes ...

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 ...

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 ...

In addition to the Ebola outbreak confirmed on Thursday, Uganda is also battling an outbreak of Mpox, with 2,462 cases and 16 ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency of international concern in August 2024, a day after ...

But rates of types 31/33/45, 47, and 45 were lower in vaccinated women, which the authors said suggests that the vaccines ...

2 As of January 9, 2025, 14 deaths from mpox out of 4687 confirmed cases (case fatality rate, 0.3%) have been reported from Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya combined. 3 It remains unclear the ...

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 ...

Clade 1b mpox was first detected in Democratic Republic ... Clade I strains can lead to more severe illness and deaths, with mortality rates of around 3%. But health experts in the DRC say the ...

There is currently community transmission of clade Ib mpox in parts of central Africa. Experts have said that Clade 1b is associated with more severe disease and higher mortality rates than the ...