The first case in the U.S. of a more severe mpox variant has been confirmed in a person who had recently traveled to East ...

Transmission of mpox, formerly called monkeypox, comes through close, intimate skin-to-skin contact, according to the CDPH.

Health officials in the United States are on alert following the confirmation of a severe case of mpox, a disease ...

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 county of San Mateo has now had the first reported case of clade I mpox in the United States, according to the California ...

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

As Africa continues to battle an outbreak of the newer "clade Ib" strain of mpox, California officials have confirmed ...

Mpox causes a painful rash that can appear anywhere on the body, sometimes accompanied by fever and other flu-like symptoms.

The California Department of Health confirmed on Saturday the first case of clade I mpox in the United States. The first ...

The unidentified patient had recently returned from Africa, where the virus has caused a deadly epidemic, health officials ...

Health officials in California confirmed Saturday they have identified the first known case of a more severe form of mpox ...

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