So far, one case of Clade I has been detected in Ireland. Cases of Clade IIb in Ireland remain low, with eight reported to ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday revealed that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reported its first case of clade 1b mpox in an individual who had a recent history of travel to Uganda.

The only antiviral recognised as an mpox treatment was unable to shorten the time to resolution of lesions in a trial in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the epicentre of an outbreak ...

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 ...

In September 2023, clade Ib — a new offshoot of the virus that causes mpox — was detected in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), prompting another declaration of PHEIC in August 2024 ...

The health ministry and the World Health Organisation ought not to be in a rush to declare a public emergency. We risk causing panic amongst the population with quick and wild declarations ...

The Ministry of Health has heightened disease surveillance and border screening as Kenya monitors the Mpox outbreak and ...

The Ministry of Health has designated Terminal 1A, Gate 16 at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) as the select ...

A virus originally found in animals, mpox – which causes the disease of the same name – is now circulating in humans.

The mpox vaccination programme has been expanded across England with the opening of 12 new sites, ensuring nationwide access to jabs for those at higher risk of infection. Previously limited to 19 ...

World Health Organization said on Thursday that United Arab Emirates has reported its first detection of Clade 1b mpox in the ...

The DRC, which had reported approximately 88% of mpox cases in Africa in 2024, had 19,513 cases before the emergency declaration, with a case fatality rate of 3.1% — a weekly average of 591 ...