ILOILO CITY, Philippines — With four confirmed mpox (monkeypox) cases and two more suspected infections under surveillance, the city government here will request the Department of Health (DOH ...

ILOILO CITY — With four confirmed cases, the city government is ramping up efforts to prevent the spread of monkeypox or mpox with a series of information drives, coordination meetings, and ...

Africa's CDC has declared mpox a public health emergency as cases are up 160% compared to 2023. What to know about rising virus cases, spread and prevention.

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency, the highest level of alarm under international health law. It follows a public ...

Mpox, previously known as monkeypox, is a viral infection that has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons due to its painful symptoms and potential for serious complications.

As of this summer, the CDC still considers the risk of mpox to the general public in the U.S. very low, but said the risk is slightly higher among men who have sex with men. During the global ...

But in 2022, a WHO appeal for $34 million to fight mpox got no take-up from donors, and there was huge inequity in who had access to vaccine doses. African countries had no access to the two shots ...

Congo alone has reported 15,600 mpox cases and 537 deaths, most of them among children under 15, indicating that the nature of the disease and its mode of spread may have changed.

Is mpox an emergency in the U.S.? Not currently. The Biden administration declared the virus a public health emergency in August 2022, following criticism over the government's lack of response ...

Cases of other strains, or clades, of mpox have popped up in other countries. In the U.S., there are more than 1,600 cases reported this year so far, more than twice the number seen at this time ...

Geneva — The mpox outbreak is not another COVID-19, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, because much is already known about the virus and the means to control it.

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 ...