British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged ...

Mpox strains are still mutating, further raising the risk of spread both in Africa and globally, Africa Centres for Disease ...

Nigeria, along with 16 other African countries, to receive support from the World Health Organization and the Africa Centres for ...

The spread of mpox has slowed down slightly across Africa but the epidemic is not over, the African Union's health watchdog ...

In an early sign that the mpox outbreak in Africa might be ebbing, some health officials report that case counts seem ...

Four cases of the more infectious variant of mpox have been reported in the U.K., making it the first cluster of infections ...

The World Health Organisation and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have committed to guiding the ...

Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, drew global attention in 2022 during an outbreak that affected the U.S., Europe, Australia and many other countries. The virus comes in two distinct forms or "clades ...

An initial 899,000 vaccine doses have been allocated for 9 countries across Africa that have been hit hard by the current mpox surge, the WHO and other health organisations said on Wednesday.

This year, 19 countries in Africa have reported mpox, many of them newly affected by the viral disease. The epicentre of the outbreak remains the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with over 38 000 ...

More than 1,100 people have died of mpox in Africa, where some 48,000 cases have been recorded since January, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).