British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged ...

Mpox strains are still mutating, further raising the risk of spread both in Africa and globally, Africa Centres for Disease ...

The spread of mpox has slowed down slightly across Africa but the epidemic is not over, the African Union's health watchdog ...

In Africa, a different variant of mpox is proving more deadly, with a mortality rate at around 5%, compared with the 2022 ...

The World Health Organization says mpox cases in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first detected appear to be “plateauing,” even as the virus continues to increase in ...

Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, drew global attention in 2022 during an outbreak that affected the U.S., Europe, Australia and many other countries. The virus comes in two distinct forms or "clades ...

Four cases of the more infectious variant of mpox have been reported in the UK, making it the first cluster of infections that have surfaced outside of Africa.

Its spread in Congo and elsewhere in Africa prompted the World Health Organization to declare a global emergency in August. Britain recorded more than 3,000 cases of another type of mpox during a ...

In response to the rapid spread of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, in Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency in mid-August. In Africa this year ...

London: Two new cases of the mpox variant clade 1b detected in the UK are the first locally transmitted cases in Europe and the first outside Africa, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.