A virus originally found in animals, mpox – which causes the disease of the same name – is now circulating in humans. Since 2022, it has been the cause of major epidemics spreading outside endemic ...

The New York State Department of Health issued a health advisory Wednesday about the emergence of a new strain of mpox (formerly monkeypox). The first case of mpox clade Ib in New York State was ...

Bengaluru: Countries outside of Africa are still reporting cases of the clade Ib form of the mpox virus that prompted the World Health Organization to declare the virus a global public health ...

EMANUEL: Contamination, meaning the virus spreads. Mike Ryan is with the World Health Organization. MIKE RYAN: All of the investment we've made over the last number of months to establish mpox ...

The individual who contracted the virus is under the care of a physician and isolated until the full resolution of symptoms. There is no known local transmission of mpox clade Ib in the community ...

Mpox is not the only virus threatening widespread outbreaks in New York. Hours before the Health Department announced the presence of the new strain, officials issued a statement warning about the ...

A new strain of mpox — found in California, Georgia and New Hampshire — has surfaced for the first time in New York, officials announced Wednesday. The individual who tested positive for mpox ...

Genomic and epidemiologic data suggest that the rapid spread of mpox clade Ib in the Democratic ... and more virulent than the clade 2 virus. In total, 670 cases were admitted to Kamituga hospital ...

The ministry, in collaboration with county governments and partners, has intensified surveillance efforts in all high-risk counties to sustain the spread of the mpox virus, Muthoni said in a ...