Analyses of mpox clades currently in circulation provide clues to how the virus managed to spread worldwide in 2022 — and how ...

The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist. The U.N. health agency ...

The World Health Organization announced on Monday that it is renaming monkeypox as “mpox,” citing concerns about “racist and stigmatizing language” surrounding the original name of the disease. The ...

In May, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention began tracking the number of Americans who test positive for monkeypox. Since then, social media users have made false assertions about everything ...

The Biden administration plans to officially switch how it refers to the disease once dubbed "monkeypox" to use the new name "mpox" instead, adopting a long-awaited renaming recommendation announced ...

The World Health Organization announced Monday that “mpox” is now the preferred name for monkeypox. “Both names will be used simultaneously for one year while ‘monkeypox’ is phased out,” the ...

A new mpox outbreak is driving a "do not comply" movement among conspiracy theorists who fear that health-related lockdowns will affect this year's presidential election. On Wednesday, the World ...

A new report from the CDC states that 82% of hospitalized monkeypox patients were also HIV-positive, stressing the need for access to prevention and treatment A majority of the U.S. patients infected ...

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This image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell ...