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 ...

Two years ago, cases of the infectious viral disease mpox were rapidly increasing in cities across the globe — particularly in the U.S. — causing a scramble for vaccine doses to help contain the ...

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 ...

Thousands of children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and other countries in Africa are at severe risk of contracting the mpox virus as cases of the new variant — clade 1b — continue ...

The U.S. saw more than 20,000 mpox cases and nearly six dozen deaths during the 2022 global mpox outbreak. San Francisco was hard hit. Today, mpox remains an ongoing public health emergency, according ...

As a deadly mpox outbreak continues to spread in Africa and other parts of the world, questions are emerging about whether some vulnerable people in the United States may need booster doses of the ...

California health officials are investigating cases of a more severe form of mpox after confirming it had, for first time known to authorities, spread locally in the United States. Three cases of ...

Yamey is a physician and professor of global health and public policy at Duke University, where he directs the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. Schäferhoff is the co-founder and managing ...

In a remote Congolese town, a medical mystery led to the discovery of alarming changes in the mpox virus and, eventually, to a global health emergency. Masila Kabesha, 18 months old, recovering from ...

A man from New Hampshire was identified with having mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, after traveling, according to the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services. The man, from Merrimack ...

LONDON/CHICAGO, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Scientists studying the new mpox strain that has spread out of Democratic Republic of Congo say the virus is changing faster than expected, and often in areas where ...