MITI MURHESA, Congo — Hospitals across eastern Congo that were once at the forefront of the country’s response to the mpox outbreak are facing a setback in detecting the disease and offering ...

Health officials have sounded the alarm over a new mutant 'highly transmissible' mpox strain, believed to be behind a wave of fresh cases. A newly discovered variant of the rash-causing virus is ...

The antiviral drug tecovirimat used without other antivirals did not reduce the time to clinical resolution of clade II mpox lesions or improve pain control among adults in an international clinical ...

Mpox remains an international public health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Feb 27 (2025). This was after the international health agency decided the epidemic still merits ...

The alarm has been raised over the mutation of a new strain of mpox. The variant is said to be "highly transmissible" and is currently rampaging through the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Tanzania has confirmed its first two cases of mpox, the health ministry said Monday, the first time the virus has been detected in an outbreak that has hit several African countries. Two ...

SAO PAULO, March 7 (Reuters) - Brazil's Sao Paulo state confirmed on Friday a case of the new mpox strain, the first case of clade Ib mpox in the region, it said in a statement. The strain was ...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department has detected two more mpox cases in the provincial capital, taking the total number of patients infected with zoonotic ailment in the province ...