Even though the virus was first discovered in laboratory monkeys in 1958, the original source came from a squirrel.

The retrospective observational study reported by Emile Malembi and colleagues in The Lancet1 provides a comprehensive clinical description of mpox cases caused by ongoing outbreaks in the DR Congo, ...

A team of researchers traced the wild animal source of the mpox virus to the fire-footed rope squirrel Funisciurus pyrropus ...

A highly virulent Mpox Clade 1b case with no travel history has been detected in the UK, raising concerns about the silent ...

All previous mpox cases in the UK were found in someone who travelled to an affected country or knew someone who had ...