Mpox has been spreading to more countries, and the deadly virus has claimed 17 lives in Africa in the last six weeks, said ...

UN health agency reports over 3,000 global mpox cases in September while confirming new detections of clade Ib virus in several countries for 1st time - Anadolu Ajansı ...

The WHO’s latest report urges heightened surveillance, improved vaccine access, and stronger infection control to prevent the ...

Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly identified a country where the new mpox strain has been recorded. The story has been updated. A highly contagious and severe strain of mpox is ...

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 ...

The World Health Organization called an emergency meeting to discuss the mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as the virus appears to have spread to neighboring countries. The WHO is ...

Mpox was declared a global emergency on Wednesday by the World Health Organization (WHO) following outbreaks of the virus in Africa. "This is something that should concern us all...The potential for ...

Sweden announced on Thursday it has identified an individual infected the more infectious form of mpox first seen in eastern Congo. "A person who sought care at Region Stockholm has been diagnosed ...

A team of scientists at Princeton University believes they've uncovered why Africa has been spared the worst of the Zika virus. Their findings don't mean the continent is out of the woods, though.

A new study reveals that Africa’s low rates of Zika virus outbreaks may be due to a surprising factor: the genetic makeup of local mosquito populations. Research by scientists at the High Meadows ...

The so-called Rice Yellow Mottle Virus (for short: RYMV) is responsible for high crop losses in Africa, particularly among small-scale farmers. A research team from Heinrich Heine University ...

View of the village of M'tsapere in Mayotte island, Saturday Feb.6, 2021. It's the poorest corner of the European Union, and was the last to receive any coronavirus vaccines. Welcome to the French ...