The first case in the U.S. of a more severe mpox variant has been confirmed in a person who had recently traveled to East ...

Health officials have confirmed a U.S. case of an aggressive new form of mpox, detected in northern California in someone who ...

The person traveled to eastern Africa and was treated in San Mateo County. California health officials said the new mpox variant isn't spreading in the state.

Origins and Basics Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) is a viral illness that belongs to the same family as smallpox. First identified in Denmark in 1958 among two colonies of monkeys kept for ...

Data shows Kenya was still out of the Mpox vortex as at November 10, having recorded only 17 cases out of more than 15,000 ...