Van Kerkhove is interim director of the Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Threat Management, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization. There is a pervasive myth that the Democratic ...

As mpox (formerly monkeypox) has been declared a global public health emergency, some are wondering whether the virus poses the risk of a COVID-like pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) ...

For the second time in two years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern. Mpox didn’t disappear in between the two outbreaks, but the ...

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 ...

Johannesburg — Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Thursday they would start administering mpox vaccinations on Oct. 2, about a week sooner than initially planned, in a bid to ...

Dr. Jennifer Furin is an infectious disease physician and lecturer at Harvard Medical School with more than 30 years of experience responding to global outbreaks. Dr. Nesar Hamraz is an infectious ...

Dr. Jean Kaseya has a warning for the world: "We are playing with fire." Kaseya is director general of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He's talking about mpox, a virus that ...

Amid a new surge of mpox in Africa, the spread of the more deadly clade I subtype, and a rising number of mpox cases in children, clinicians are struggling to understand this complex and evolving ...

Africa is grappling with increasing public health threats amid overstretched resources and persistent gaps in preparedness, the ...

Sarah Carter is an award-winning CBS News producer based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has been with CBS News since 1997, following freelance work for organizations including The New York Times, ...