Monkeypox, caused by the monkeypox virus—a close cousin of smallpox—has spread rapidly worldwide. From 2022 to 2025, more than 133,000 cases were reported across 131 countries. In August 2024, the ...

With the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declaring the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency as the number of cases continue to rise, the most important thing you can do is know ...

WASHINGTON -- The Biden Administration announced plans to beef up its response to monkeypox on Tuesday, detailing plans to offer more vaccines and more tests to people who are most at risk of getting ...

Mpox cases are on the rise in the U.S., increasing to almost double what they were at the same time last year, according to new CDC data. The video is from a previous report. There is a national ...

An mpox blood test tube is seen among other blood test tubes in Ankara, Turkey on Aug. 28, 2024. An mpox blood test tube is seen among other blood test tubes in Ankara, Turkey on Aug. 28, 2024.Hakan ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Two New York City residents have died after contracting the monkeypox virus and now the health department is investigating the cause of death. Both individuals who died had ...

The breakthrough could be used in a new vaccine or antibody therapy to fight mpox, the disease caused by the monkeypox virus. Structure of a surface protein on the monkeypox virus (MPXV OPG153, ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says a group of global experts has agreed on new names for monkeypox virus variants. The report said that the experts agreed to name the clades using roman numerals ...