London: The World Health Organisation said mpox cases in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first detected appear to be 'plateauing', even as the virus continues ...

The World Health Organization will convene a meeting of its Emergency Committee next week to determine whether mpox remains a global health crisis, it said in a statement on Monday. In August, the ...

Private insurance companies in the U.S. aren’t required to cover the cost of the mpox vaccine, which costs $270 a dose.

The World Health Organization is to hold a summit to discuss the future of mpox after more than 1,000 deaths from the virus.

The African continent is still in the acute phase of the Mpox outbreak as the number of cases reported so far this year ...

In an early sign that the mpox outbreak in Africa might be ebbing, some health officials report that case counts seem to be stabilizing in the Congo, the epicenter of the outbreak.

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AP reports on the new U.K. cluster, noting that scientists say public risk remains low. Other global health news is on cigarettes in the U.K., a social media ban in Australia, the future of cancer ...

Since the current outbreak of mpox clade I began in eastern DR Congo in 2023, there has been a rapid increase in cases, primarily in DR Congo, and spread of the monkeypox virus to other countries in ...

British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged ...

Four cases of the more infectious variant of mpox have been reported in the U.K., making it the first cluster of infections ...