The World Health Organization (WHO) and Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) have updated their ...

The individual has been isolated and officials assured there is no risk of infection to the surrounding community.

Africa CDC and WHO have updated their joint Continental Response Plan for the mpox emergency as the disease continues to affect new areas ...

Switzerland has reported its first case of a particularly serious variant of Mpox – formerly known as monkeypox.

More than 350 health emergency experts took part in a two-day simulation looking at how they would deal with “mammothpox”, an invented virus similar to smallpox and mpox that was described as ...

A traveler returning to Switzerland from Africa has been confirmed to have clade 1b mpox. This is the first detection of ...

Since eradicating smallpox, only rare outbreaks of related viruses appeared. But today, mpox, once confined mainly to rural parts of Africa, is spreading globally, and the reasons behind this ...

And studies published in the past year have demonstrated that African outbreaks of mpox, the disease caused by the virus, have been fueled by several transmission events from animals to humans.

Mpox is a viral infection caused by a virus that belongs to the same family as smallpox. The virus can cause a painful rash, fever, and swollen glands and, in some cases, lead to more serious ...

Switzerland has reported its first case of the new mpox variant, Clade 1b. This content was published on April 9, 2025 - ...