The discovery of a hybrid mpox virus and growing clade Ib infections reveal how mpox continues to evolve and spread in ...

Mpox made for scary headlines in 2022 and 2023: Tens of thousands of cases worldwide, with 30,000 in the U.S. in just one year. There were reports of painful lesions and mammoth efforts to mobilize ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) just declared mpox to be a global health emergency. But don't expect it to turn into the next COVID-19 pandemic. On August 20, the WHO's European director Hans ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Only a very small handful of cases have been reported in the U.S. this year. Still, the outbreak in 2022 ...

Mpox has been making headlines ever since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a global health emergency last week. Considering that, it’s totally fair to have questions about the virus, ...

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Dr. Jennifer Furin is an infectious disease physician and lecturer at Harvard Medical School with more than 30 years of experience responding to global outbreaks. Dr. Nesar Hamraz is an infectious ...

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Houston area health care systems are prepared to test and treat a strain of mpox, formerly known as monkey pox, if it arrives in Texas after the World Health Organization issued a global health ...

The man is isolated and is unlikely to infect others, but state epidemiologists are urging clinicians to test anyone with ...