Mozambique has reported a sudden increase in mpox virus cases within the last 48 hours, according to health authorities.A ...

As African countries continue to grapple with multiple mpox outbreaks involving different clades and transmission patterns, ...

Mozambique has reported a sharp uptick in mpox virus infections, with 11 confirmed cases emerging across the country in the ...

Mozambican health authorities have confirmed two more positive cases of mpox in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to six, all in the northern ...

As mpox (formerly monkeypox) has been declared a global public health emergency, some may wonder whether the virus poses a risk of a COVID-like pandemic. Here's what to know.

The current outbreak in Africa stems from a different, more dangerous mpox variant compared to the last outbreak in 2022. There are no confirmed cases of the strain in the U.S.

WHO launches plan to stanch mpox transmission and says the virus can be stopped. During the Clade II epidemic, wealthy nations effectively used the MVA-BN vaccine, produced by Bavarian Nordic.

The U.S. case count of mpox comprises roughly 14% of the total cases of clade I and II reported globally this year (21,370), per the CDC, while 11,911 cases have been reported in countries with ...

Mpox rashes develop three to 17 days after exposure, with symptoms lasting two to three weeks. With chickenpox, the rash will appear within 10 to 21 days, with symptoms lasting four to seven days.

More than 17,000 people in Africa have been infected with mpox, a disease that is closely related to smallpox. Mpox has killed nearly 600 people on the continent, or about 4 percent of those infected.

In Congo, it has helped drive mpox cases to a record high of 53,000 this year, more than triple the number in 2023. About 1,250 people have died of the virus this year.