“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 ...

France has detected its first case of a new mpox virus, the health ministry said Monday, weeks after the World Health Organization maintained its highest alert level amid the epidemic. A case of ...

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 ...

The Mpox clade I virus spreads easily and has a mortality rate of 10%, while clade II has a much lower mortality rate, the ministry said, adding that it would be monitoring the Mpox situation in ...

China has reported a cluster of mpox infections linked to a foreign traveler who had recently visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Mpox, previously known as monkeypox and related to smallpox, is caused by a virus transmitted to humans by infected animals but can also be passed from human to human through close physical contact.

Mpox is a zoonotic disease caused by the Mpox virus. It is primarily transmitted when an individual comes into contact with an infected animals, sick individuals or contaminated materials.

France has detected its first case of a new mpox virus, the health ministry said Monday, weeks after the World Health Organization maintained its highest alert level amid the epidemic. A case of ...

France's health ministry confirmed its first case of a new mpox virus. The detection comes just weeks after the World Health Organization upheld its highest alert level in response to the ongoing ...