“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 ...

A two-dose vaccine can prevent mpox. 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 ...

A new strain of monkeypox has been detected in the US, prompting alarm among health officials. The New York State Department of Health confirmed Tuesday that it had detected a case of clade Ib ...

Health officials around the world have urged people to be alert to monkeypox rashes, as more than 100 cases have been confirmed in the past month and an additional 131 are suspected, the World ...

AR: We typically see [monkeypox] occurring—at least in DRC, which is where I work—in remote, rural settings, in people, the vast majority of [whom] have had contact with an animal that is likely the ...

“Before the monkeypox outbreak, really, only the US and Canada had stockpiled our drug and very few people had actually stockpiled the vaccine between Canada, the US, and a few other countries ...

Colombian health authorities Monday confirmed 938 people had been diagnosed with monkeypox nationwide, with the bulk of the cases being in Bogotá. The National Health Institute (INS) reported ...

The MSP insisted that, in case of symptoms related to monkeypox, people should consult their healthcare provider, who should in turn report any suspected case to the authorities for ...

In the United States, health officials are scrambling to stretch scarce doses of vaccine to slow the mounting monkeypox outbreak, but do older people already vaccinated as kids for the related ...