Health department officials said that a 40-year-old man who had recently returned from Dubai tested positive for the Monkeypox virus, making it the first case in the state this year.

An eighth case of the new deadly mpox strain has been detected in the UK, health officials have said. The clade 1b mutation has been dubbed "the most dangerous one so far" by experts. The ...

For decades after the identification of mpox in humans in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1970, the disease was largely confined to the rural areas of Central and West Africa and thus ...

Mpox has been endemic in remote, rural areas of Africa for decades but has attracted relatively little attention until the global outbreak that began in 2022. In July of that year, I declared a ...