Monkeypox can be transmitted by contact and droplet exposure via exhaled large droplets On 7 May 2022, WHO was informed of a confirmed case of monkeypox in an individual who travelled from the ...

However, cases have occasionally been found elsewhere, mostly among travellers. In May 2022, an outbreak of monkeypox – now renamed mpox – began in the UK and soon spread throughout Europe and North ...

Mpox: Warning over ‘highly infectious’ new variant identified in Congo - The global community needs to ‘step up’ to prevent ...

Monkeypox is both less contagious and less deadly than smallpox, with the West African clade (the version of the virus involved in the current outbreak) having an estimated 1% fatality rate in humans.

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 have raised alarms over a newly identified, highly transmissible mpox variant, suspected of driving a surge ...

Now, a mutated strain of the mpox-causing monkeypox virus has spread in several African nations, the US, UK, Thailand and India, among other countries. The World Health Organization and Africa ...

Over 26k monkeypox cases detected worldwide across 87 countries. The maximum number of cases were detected in Europe – with Spain, Germany and the UK accounting for over 10,000 cases.

The WHO has described mpox - formerly called monkeypox - as a global public health emergency. A person in California has tested positive for the emerging strain, which can cause a more serious ...