A new strain of monkeypox that causes miscarriage and has a fatality rate of up to 10 per cent is spreading rapidly in central Africa, a team of experts warned in a press briefing today.

“Monkeypox is related to smallpox but with two important differences: it spreads between people much less easily than smallpox, and it generally causes much milder illness,” says Jonathan ...

The New York State Department of Health confirmed Tuesday that it had detected a case of clade Ib monkeypox, which also causes a rash on the hands, feet, chest face, mouth and/or genitals.

Like smallpox, monkeypox causes pus-filled boils. But monkeypox is generally milder than smallpox, with symptoms getting better on their own within two to four weeks. Monkeypox is less contagious ...

People with untreated HIV are at greater risk for severe mpox. Mpox (monkeypox) is caused by a virus related to smallpox; both are members of the orthopox virus family. Mpox typically causes a rash ...

South Africa's National Department of Health appealed for vigilance as three new cases of monkeypox, also known as mpox, were ...

To date, monkeypox continues to remain one of the major health threats globally. and there have been nearly 80,000 cases so far recorded across 106 countries, with 36 deaths. Currently ...

In this scenario, the European Union (EU) has decided to buy 110,000 doses of vaccine. Monkeypox causes flu-like symptoms and skin lesions, and spreads through close contact. WHO stressed that ...

Another way of infection is through the blister-like sores that monkeypox causes on the skin. Experts say that the chances of monkeypox becoming a pandemic are small because of the virus' low ...

Monkeypox was first brought to the attention of Malaysians in 2019 following the report of a case in Singapore. In an average year, a few thousand cases occur in western and central Africa.