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 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 ... The current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has a fatality rate of around 5%, NBC News previously ... Read More

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 ... The good news is that some smallpox vaccines have been shown ... Read More

This doctor raised the alarm about a deadly mpox outbreak that went global

Early this year, cases of mpox erupted across Central Africa, killing hundreds. Seeing the events unfold so soon after the still-simmering outbreak of 2022 “felt like scientific amnesia”, says Placide ... Read More

Mpox still a health emergency, says WHO

The mpox outbreak continues to represent a public health emergency, the World Health Organization ... form of alert and was also applied to a global outbreak of a different form of mpox in 2022-2023. Read More

A new global health emergency: What is mpox, where are the outbreaks and what is the WHO doing?

2024 after the World Health Organization declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa) A poster bringing attention to the mpox outbreak ... 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

Sex, a Hex and a Sick Child Offer Clues to an Epidemic’s Birth

In a remote Congolese town, a medical mystery led to the discovery of alarming changes in the mpox virus and, eventually, to a global health emergency. Read More