Until recently, the medical community believed monkeypox spread only from animal to human and human to human. Doctors from Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris recently reported the first ...

New research may change the narrative over how mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, has become a human problem. Researchers found evidence that strains of the virus have been circulating between ...

Before April 2022, monkeypox virus infection in humans was seldom reported outside African regions where it is endemic. Currently, cases are occurring worldwide. Transmission, risk factors ...

The first possible case of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox – recently reported in two men and their pet in Paris – had been a theoretical risk up till now, said Dr. Rosamund Lewis ...

The study’s findings offer a broader perspective in the wake of two recently reported cases of apparent monkeypox transmission from humans to their pets, including a dog in France and a puppy in ...

In what appears to be the first documented instance of monkeypox spreading from humans to animals, a dog was likely infected with the virus by its owners in France, scientists say. The development ...

However, some researchers worry that monkeypox could mutate and become a greater threat to humans. One study published in 2008 warned that if monkeypox were to be introduced to an unvaccinated ...

The first suspected case of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox has been reported in Paris, leading the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website to include dogs ...

This is the first case of a dog contracting the monkeypox virus through direct contact with skin lesions on a human. I am a veterinary pathologist and virologist who has been working with ...

Viral DNA from one of the men matched that from the dog, suggesting that the human had given monkeypox to an animal. Usually monkeypox goes the other way, from animals — especially rodents in ...