On a humid January morning in 2023, deep in the heart of Côte d’Ivoire’s Taï National Park, a baby monkey fell ill. Its skin ...

A team of researchers traced the wild animal source of the mpox virus to the fire-footed rope squirrel Funisciurus pyrropus ...

Even though the virus was first discovered in laboratory monkeys in 1958, the original source came from a squirrel.

A chance discovery led to the identification of a possible natural reservoir for the virus formerly known as monkeypox ...

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China on Thursday reported an outbreak of monkeypox virus, specifically the Ib sub-branch, with four associated cases. The ...

Insufficient research on mpox hinders effective control strategies, emphasizing the need to understand its transmission and ...

Monkeypox is a part of the orthopox family of viruses, which also includes smallpox, a deadly and contagious disease that was irradicated in the 1980s in an unprecedented immunisation campaign.

Dr. Tom Carpino, who recently earned his Ph.D. in infectious disease epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University, is investigating the stigma associated with mpox, formally known as monkeypox ...

The retrospective observational study reported by Emile Malembi and colleagues in The Lancet1 provides a comprehensive clinical description of mpox cases caused by ongoing outbreaks in the DR Congo, ...

Former Biden administration Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra announced on Wednesday that he’s running for ...