Researchers at UC San Diego and their colleagues have developed an optical biosensor that detects the virus that causes mpox. The technology could make diagnosis much faster and cost-effective as the ...

Mpox is a disease caused by the highly infectious monkeypox virus. It's quite easily passed on from one person to another.

The DR Congo's capital Kinshasa needs more than double the mpox vaccines it currently has to immunise all the city's at-risk ...

Democratic Republic of Congo has been unable to launch an mpox vaccination campaign in the capital Kinshasa due to a shortage ...

Cases of mpox in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first detected appear to be "plateauing," ...

Four cases of the more infectious variant of mpox have been reported in the UK, making it the first cluster of infections that have surfaced outside of Africa.

Congo reported fewer than 100 mpox cases last week, down from nearly 400 in July but infections have risen in Burundi and ...

The World Health Organization says mpox cases in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first detected appear to be “plateauing,” even as the virus continues to increase in ...

Intensifying mpox outbreak as both subclade Ia and Ib strains show signs of sustained human-to-human transmission in Kinshasa ...

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

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 ...

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