For Mbala, it is his personal mission to put an end to the scientific amnesia that allowed conditions such as mpox to linger and re-emerge. He says that the world knew what the monkeypox virus was ...

In a remote Congolese town, a medical mystery led to the discovery of alarming changes in the mpox virus and, eventually, to ...

“I’d never heard of it,” Ms. Efonge said. This was back in August, when the mpox virus — closely related to smallpox — was still almost unknown in Kinshasa, a city of 17 million peopl ...

"Geographical expansion of clade 1b mpox virus (MPXV) continues to be reported outside the DRC," the WHO said, noting that eight countries outside of Africa have detected the strain. "Much remains ...

Mpox virus still remains one of the top global concerns as Belgium becomes the eighth non-African country to detect a case of Clade 1b strain, according to reports from the European Centre for ...

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 ...

The virus, first discovered in 1958, has evolved in both our understanding and its impact on human health. Dr. Luis Ostrovsky, a leading infectious disease specialist, explains that mpox primarily ...

Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) is a disease caused by a virus in the same family as the smallpox virus. In the ongoing global outbreak, most cases have been linked to sexual contact between ...

It’s a close cousin of Ebola that’s been dubbed the “bleeding eye” virus due to one of its symptoms. Marburg, Mpox and Oropouch (commonly called “sloth fever”) are spreading in ...

China's top drug regulator has recently approved clinical trials of a mpox vaccine developed by the domestic drugmaker Sinopharm, adding to a growing number of homegrown candidates in the pipeline ...

The UK has seen five confirmed cases of a potentially deadly strain of mpox over the past month. The country’s first case of Clade Ib strain of the virus was reported in London on 30 October in ...