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

European Medicines Agency Supports Streamlined Development Pathway for GEO-MVA Vaccine Candidate via a Single Phase 3 ...

Africa's CDC has declared mpox a public health emergency as cases are up 160% compared to 2023. What to know about rising virus cases, spread and prevention.

Officials at the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) have reported an increase in high-risk events, ...

What we can learn from the Tigray crisis. The civil war in Tigray that lasted from November 2020 to November 2022 involved the federal government of Ethiopia imposing a blockade on the entire ...

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency, the highest level of alarm under international health law. It follows a public ...

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.

Mpox looks like its cousin smallpox, but because smallpox was literally wiped off the planet in 1980, very few, if any, Americans have come in direct contact with a person’s body covered in ...

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared mpox a global public health emergency, as U.S. health officials continued to warn about the risk of its spread. The WHO issued an emergency for ...

Is there an mpox outbreak? Congo and surrounding countries have had worsening outbreaks since 2023. Just in 2024, central and eastern Africa have had over 17,000 infections and more than 500 ...

In July 2022, in an earlier mpox outbreak, he declared a PHEIC despite the fact that an emergency committee he had convened could not come to a consensus that one was needed. That public health ...

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.