Aug 26, 2024 · Mpox is an infectious disease that can cause a painful rash, enlarged lymph nodes, fever, headache, muscle ache, back pain and low energy. Most people fully recover, but some get very sick.

Dec 9, 2024 · Mpox (previously known as monkeypox) is a viral disease caused by an orthopoxvirus called monkeypox virus. It spreads mainly through close contact with someone who has mpox, causing a painful rash, enlarged lymph nodes and fever. It can make people very sick and leave scars.

Oct 16, 2024 · Mpox is an illness caused by the monkeypox virus. It is a viral infection which can spread between people, mainly through close contact, and occasionally from the environment to people via things and surfaces that have been touched by a person with mpox. In settings where the monkeypox virus is present among some wild animals, it can also be transmitted from …

Page providing resources relating to an outbreak of mpox that began in 2022. Resources include general information on the virus, situation reports and materials for health workers.

May 16, 2023 · Mpox is a rare viral infection, previously usually found in forested areas of Central and West Africa. The disease originates in animals, but in the last 50 years or so has also been reported sporadically in humans. Previously, no sustained person-to-person transmission was thought possible.

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May 24, 2024 · Mpox continues to affect people around the world. A new framework released today by WHO will guide health authorities, communities and other stakeholders in preventing and controlling mpox outbreaks, eliminating human-to-human transmission of the disease, and reducing spillover of the virus from animals to humans.

Jun 5, 2022 · The patients initially presenting with mpox in the 2022 outbreak have mainly, but not exclusively, been identified among men who have sex with men (MSM) seeking care in sexual health clinics. However, it is important to note that anyone who has close contact with someone who is infectious can catch mpox, regardless of their sexual orientation.

Aug 22, 2024 · Mpox is an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV). There are two known clades of MPXV: clade I, previously called the Congo Basin clade, which includes subclades Ia and the recently identified Ib; and clade II, previously called the West African clade, which includes subclades IIa and IIb.

Mar 3, 2023 · Mpox, previously called monkeypox, is an infectious disease endemic to central and west Africa caused by the double-stranded DNA mpox virus. The virus is a member of the Orthopoxvirus genus in the Poxviridae family, related to the virus which caused smallpox which was eradicated in 1980.