Global mpox emergency: debunking fact versus fiction

An mpox outbreak spreading across several African countries, which the World Health Organization has called a global emergency ... zoster virus – the same virus that causes chickenpox. Read More

Mpox is a global health emergency. Will it cause a lockdown like COVID? Experts say no

In August, the World Health Organization declared mpox a global health emergency amid a rapidly growing outbreak in central Africa ... virus is split into two clades, I and II. Clade I generally ... Read More

Mpox became a global health emergency for the second time in 2024

Surging mpox cases in East, West and Central Africa prompted the World Health Organization to once again make the infection a global health emergency ... Read More

Mpox still a health emergency, says WHO

The WHO convened a meeting of its Emergency ... to a global outbreak of a different form of mpox in 2022-2023. The alert issued this year followed the spread of a new variant of the virus, called ... Read More

Take Care: Mpox is a global health emergency. Here's what you need to know.

Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) is a disease caused by a virus in the same family as the smallpox virus. In the ongoing global outbreak ... in Central and West Africa known to carry it. Read More

The first 100 days of the mpox response in Africa

Africa's low COVID-19 mortality rates concealed important vulnerabilities, including poor health infrastructure and manufacturing constraints,1 highlighting the need for a proactive, continent-wide ... Read More

Mpox outbreak continues to be a public health emergency, WHO says

The WHO had convened a meeting of its Emergency ... to a global outbreak of a different form of mpox in 2022-2023. The alert issued this year followed the spread of a new variant of the virus ... Read More