The first case of clade I mpox, one of two strains of the disease, has been identified in Connecticut through testing at the State Public Health Laboratory.

DALLAS, Texas -- A traveler is hospitalized in Dallas with a case of human monkeypox after a recent visit to Nigeria, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In a statement ...

The first case of the human monkeypox virus (hMPXV) was confirmed by the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) in an individual traveling back from Nigeria on 7th May 2022. This patient ...

New evidence suggests the virus was evolving and spreading in people long before it became a global epidemic in 2022. Reading time 3 minutes New research may change the narrative over how mpox, ...

The Biden administration is planning to send out hundreds of thousands of monkeypox vaccines in response to the outbreak of the rare disease that has been identified in multiple non-endemic countries.

A team of US-based scientists has developed an amplicon-based sequencing method for the human monkeypox virus. The method has higher viral genome coverage and can even analyze samples with low viral ...

Rosamund Lewis, the World Health Organization’s lead expert on the monkeypox virus, said in an interview that it’s “not surprising” that the first suspected human-to-dog transmission of the virus ...

Since May 2022, cases of monkeypox have increased globally, stirring fears of a new pandemic. A study published in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens on September 22 nd by Professor Souha Kanj and ...

Mpox (monkeypox) is a viral illness caused by the monkeypox virus, a species of the genus Orthopoxvirus. Two different clades exist: clade I and clade II Common symptoms of mpox are a skin rash or ...

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin officials said Friday it is unlikely that two health-care workers who fell ill after treating patients with the monkeypox virus were infected with the disease. The cases ...

Since May 2022, cases of monkeypox have increased globally, stirring fears of a new pandemic. A new study presents synthesized descriptions of its clinical characteristics, risk factors, infection ...