For decades, the human niche for viruses related to smallpox has remained mostly empty. Since eradicating smallpox, only rare ...
The recent study by Ndembi and colleagues on the epidemiology of mpox in Africa1 provided a thorough analysis of the disease's spread across the continent. However, we would like to highlight an ...
Mpox has the potential to become a significant global health threat if taken too lightly, according to scientists at the ...
As mpox continues to spread within the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring countries, concern is growing over how best to respond to this second mpox Public Health Emergency of International ...
The NIH/INRB trial, however, is focusing on the Clade I strain of mpox that is endemic in Central Africa. A variant of that strain – known as Clade Ib – is responsible for a surge in cases in ...
When I first spoke to Yap Boum II in January, 2025, he had recently become Deputy Incident Manager for the continental ...
A new mutated variant of Mpox has been identified in Democratic ... after weeks of planning, according to Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC ). As one of the most ...
ADDIS ABABA, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from Africa's ongoing mpox outbreak has reached 1,724 since the beginning of 2024, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and ...
Although mpox was once mainly seen in Central Africa, the virus caused an outbreak worldwide in 2022 and is now causing outbreaks in multiple sub-Saharan countries. While it currently affects ...