The announcement marks the first mpox vaccine to be added to the WHO's prequalification list to facilitate timely access and ...

Ever since the UN ’s World Health Organisation ( WHO) declared mpox a “public-health emergency of international concern” a ...

Nigeria’s Kaduna state begins an Mpox vaccination drive in high risk areas:: Kaduna, Nigeria:: August 18, 2025:: Natasha ...

Health officials in Africa continue to report progress in the region's battle against mpox, but some challenges remain, ...

WASHINGTON — A new cluster of mpox cases in the United States — following nearly seven months of steady decline — is leading health officials to warn of a possible rebound outbreak this summer.

Mpox is back. More than 900 people, mostly African children, have died this year and public health officials say the new variant inflicting that toll could arrive in the U.S. at any time. There ...

Mpox rashes develop three to 17 days after exposure, with symptoms lasting two to three weeks. With chickenpox, the rash will appear within 10 to 21 days, with symptoms lasting four to seven days.

Mpox cases are on the rise in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other African countries. The first case outside Africa was detected in Sweden last week. Travelers don’t need to be too ...

What to know about mpox after WHO declared it a global health emergency A new form of the mpox virus is spreading rapidly in parts of Africa, known as clade 1b. More than 500 mpox deaths have been ...

Mpox has been declared a "public health emergency of international concern" by the World Health Organization amid the spread of a deadlier form of the virus through multiple African countries.

Health workers monitor Mpox patients at the Mpox treatment centre of the Nyiragongo general reference hospital, north of the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on August 16, 2024.

Mpox, which causes flulike symptoms and skin lesions that can be extremely painful, has been endemic in parts of Africa for decades. It can infect anyone, but in 2022, it began spreading globally ...