Origins and Basics Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) is a viral illness that belongs to the same family as smallpox. First identified in Denmark in 1958 among two colonies of monkeys kept for ...

The patient was traveling from East Africa, where the mpox disease is endemic. The CDC says the strain does not present a ...

A person in California has tested positive for a form of mpox causing a widespread epidemic in Africa, the state’s Department ...

The first known case of clade I mpox in the U.S. was recently discovered in a person in California, the Centers for Disease ...

FOR A FAST RESOLUTION. FIVE ON YOUR HEALTH TONIGHT, THERE’S A NEW ALERT ABOUT THE THE RISE OF MPOX, WHICH WE USED TO CALL ...

A new variant of human mpox has claimed the lives of approximately 5% of people with reported infections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2023, many of them children. Since then, it has ...

when a nine-year-old boy living in the DRC developed a nasty rash that reminded doctors of smallpox. Scientists have identified two major strains – or clades – of mpox in Africa. Clade 1 is ...

GOMA, Congo — Some health officials say mpox cases in Congo appear to be “stabilizing” — a possible sign that the main epidemic for which the World Health Organization made a global ...

Clade 2 strain was behind the mpox cases globally in 2022 and 2023. Clade 1 causes more severe symptoms like high fever, severe headache, myalgia and enlarged lymph nodes. The skin lesions are ...