Monkeypox is a disease caused by the monkeypox virus, a pathogen closely related to variola virus, which causes smallpox.

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 ...

Mpox (formerly monkeypox) has officially been declared a public health emergency by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The African agency reported an increase in the disease ...

On the surface of things, this looks like a problem. Mpox viruses—formerly known as monkeypox viruses—remain on stainless steel and able to reproduce for at least several days, according to a study ...

A deadly and fast-spreading new strain of mpox, the disease caused by the monkeypox virus, has global health officials ringing alarm bells. The new virus is "undoubtedly the most dangerous of all the ...

Scientists have located and identified alterations in the monkeypox virus genome that potentially correlate with changes in the virus's transmissibility observed in the 2022 outbreak. Mount Sinai ...

In 2022, the medical establishment and public health world nixed the name "monkeypox" for two key reasons. Animal-to-human transmission comes from rodents. And the name "monkeypox" was seen as racist ...

An observational study has found that intradermal administration of the JYNNEOS vaccine against smallpox induces an efficient immune response that should protect people living with HIV from ...

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