A year ago, on August 14, 2024, the World Health Organization declared mpox a Public Health Emergency of International ...

Mpox is spreading faster, showing new modes of transmission and affecting different populations. Scientists are calling for stronger global action. A researcher from the University of Manitoba is play ...

WHO DG cautioned that drastic reductions in foreign assistance are now hampering access to key public health interventions.

From Jan. 1 to Aug. 13, 2025, the continent recorded 97,144 suspected mpox cases, 29,849 confirmed cases, and 593 deaths across 24 AU member states.

The announcement marks the first mpox vaccine to be added to the WHO's prequalification list to facilitate timely access and ...

Ever since the 2022 global outbreak of mpox, the number of cases has died down in the United States, but Fulton County officials warn that mpox hasn’t fully left Atlanta. At a Fulton County Board of ...

Mpox remains a serious public health challenge in Africa. In the past year, 28 African countries have been affected, with ...

Because mpox is so closely related to smallpox, vaccines for smallpox are also effective against mpox. In addition to Jynneos, the US has another smallpox vaccine in its stockpile, called ACAM2000.

Three years after mpox overwhelmed New York City’s LGBTQ community, the virus has not rebounded to the same degree, but the ...

Yesterday the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the European Commission highlighted the ...

Mpox looks like its cousin smallpox, but because smallpox was literally wiped off the planet in 1980, very few, if any, Americans have come in direct contact with a person’s body covered in ...