Health officials in Los Angeles County said on Friday they are investigating a possible local spread of a more severe strain of mpox. Two cases of the strain were identified among Los Angeles County ...

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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 ...

In August 2024, the news came in quick succession. On Tuesday — Aug. 13, 2024 — Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared mpox a public health emergency of continental concern. The ...

Osmundson is a clinical assistant professor of biology at New York University and author of “Virology.” Paredes is an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Washington. As queer ...

California recently reported the first U.S. case of a more severe form of mpox. Doctors are encouraging Americans not to panic about mpox even after a recent severe case was detected in California and ...

Men who have sex with men and others who are at high risk of mpox infection should get two doses of the Jynneos vaccine, even now that the recent public health emergency in the United States has ...

An mpox blood test tube is seen among other blood test tubes in Ankara, Turkey on Aug. 28, 2024. An mpox blood test tube is seen among other blood test tubes in Ankara, Turkey on Aug. 28, 2024.Hakan ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health advisory recommending that select travelers to countries where a certain strain of mpox is endemic should be fully vaccinated ...