In the Ivory Coast in West Africa, a baby sooty mangabey monkey fell ill. It developed red, pus-filled blisters all over its ...

A hospital is checking if patients have been exposed to mpox - formerly known as monkeypox - after a person with the ...

For decades, the human niche for viruses related to smallpox has remained mostly empty. Since eradicating smallpox, only rare outbreaks of related viruses appeared. But today, mpox, once confined ...

Health bosses at the Cambridge-based hospital said they had alerted 30 patients over possible exposure to the nasty bug - a ...

One of the great mysteries of the monkeypox virus has been pinpointing its ‘reservoir’ hosts — the animals that carry and ...

The WHO simulation exercise looked at how countries reacted in the wake of another pandemic, five years on from Covid ...

Mpox can be lethal, especially for children under five years old. The mortality rate for clade I is between 3% and 10%. The ...

An advisory panel on vaccines meets, carefully, in the shadow of a health secretary who has often criticized it.

A major UK hospital is trying to trace down staff and patients who may have come into contact with a patient who entered A&E ...

Africa CDC and WHO have updated their joint Continental Response Plan for the mpox emergency as the disease continues to affect new areas.

It added the case had "no reported travel history" and no reported link with previously confirmed cases in the UK. Dr Gillian ...

All previous mpox cases in the UK were found in someone who travelled to an affected country or knew someone who had ...