The department warned that although public health risk remains low, this was the first time the patients did not have a history of recent international travel. This indicates a person-to-person ...

In August 2024, the news came in quick succession. On Tuesday — Aug. 13, 2024 — Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared mpox a public health emergency of continental concern. The ...

The United States’ first known case of a more severe strain of mpox was confirmed in California, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday. The risk of clade I mpox to the public ...

Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) is a disease caused by a virus in the same family as the smallpox virus. In the ongoing global outbreak, most cases have been linked to sexual contact between men, ...

The U.S. saw more than 20,000 mpox cases and nearly six dozen deaths during the 2022 global mpox outbreak. San Francisco was hard hit. Today, mpox remains an ongoing public health emergency, according ...

A year ago, the WHO and Africa CDC triggered the highest health alert for the mpox outbreak. experts say the response has been an indicator of how poorly prepared the world is for a future pandemic.

California recently reported the first U.S. case of a more severe form of mpox. Doctors are encouraging Americans not to panic about mpox even after a recent severe case was detected in California and ...

Health officials in Los Angeles County said on Friday they are investigating a possible local spread of a more severe strain of mpox. Two cases of the strain were identified among Los Angeles County ...

The first U.S. cases of a potentially more severe form of mpox without known travel were reported in California, health officials said this week. "The identification of cases of clade I mpox, which ...

Health officials have sounded the alarm over a new mutant 'highly transmissible' mpox strain, believed to be behind a wave of ...

The New York State Department of Health issued a health advisory Wednesday about the emergence of a new strain of mpox (formerly monkeypox). The first case of mpox clade Ib in New York State was ...