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

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

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

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

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

GENEVA, Switzerland — The outcome of years-long negotiations on ... from H5N1 bird flu to measles, mpox and Ebola — pressure ...

The global outbreak of mpox in 2022–23 affected more than 100 countries and grabbed the attention of the scientific community. Research on mpox has intensified since. Overall, deaths in the 2022 ...

Two pandemics of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) are ongoing, and currently, we have no proven therapies. The pandemic caused by clade I MPXV is focused in central and eastern Africa ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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