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 ...

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.

Four cases of the more infectious variant of mpox have been reported in the U.K., making it the first cluster of infections ...

The African Union's health watchdog on Thursday warned that mpox outbreak was still not under control and appealed for ...

Mpox cases have risen by 500% in Africa this year, driven by the new Clade Ib strain, which is more deadly and infectious. With 48,000 suspected cases and 1,048 deaths reported in 19 countries ...

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 ...

More than 1,100 people have died of mpox in Africa, where some 48,000 cases have been recorded since January, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). Cases were ...