Africa's CDC has declared mpox a public health emergency as cases are up 160% compared to 2023. What to know about rising virus cases, spread and prevention.

Sixteen deaths have been reported due to Mpox in Ghana, Nigeria, Sudan, Mozambique, and Cameroon. The most common symptoms include rash, pain, fever, dysphagia, and headache.

The Mozambican health authorities have started to contact international partners in order to gain access to vaccines against mpox, although the country has not recorded any positive cases.

Mozambican health authorities have confirmed two more positive cases of mpox in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to six, all in the northern ...

Mozambique has reported a sudden increase in mpox virus cases within the last 48 hours, according to health authorities.A ...

Mozambique has reported a sharp uptick in mpox virus infections, with 11 confirmed cases emerging across the country in the ...

The current mpox epidemic began in central Africa in September 2003. As of August 2004, more than 21,000 cases had been reported, the vast majority of them in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ...

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency, the highest level of alarm under international health law. It follows a public ...

Mpox looks like its cousin smallpox, but because smallpox was literally wiped off the planet in 1980, very few, if any, Americans have come in direct contact with a person’s body covered in ...

Congo alone has reported 15,600 mpox cases and 537 deaths, most of them among children under 15, indicating that the nature of the disease and its mode of spread may have changed. Here’s what to ...

As mpox (formerly monkeypox) has been declared a global public health emergency, some may wonder whether the virus poses a risk of a COVID-like pandemic. Here's what to know.