With cases of monkeypox reported in multiple countries, including the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel advisory for the disease. The Level 2 alert issued for over a ...

Health workers are rushing to contain a deadly outbreak of mpox after hundreds of suspected cases were reported in Madagascar. Some 261 suspected and 94 confirmed cases had been recorded by the ...

A new strain of monkeypox virus is "the most dangerous" yet and could be a global threat, experts say. The new clade Ib virus emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and spread to Rwanda's ...

While the World Health Organization recently declared a global public health emergency for a more contagious type of mpox, formerly called monkeypox, the spread of another type that first emerged in ...

Monkeypox is a virus first found in monkeys in the 1950s that is transmissible to humans. In May, the World Health Organization reported outbreaks of the virus in several countries. Dr. Leanne Skehan, ...

The first known case in the United States of a more severe strain of the monkeypox virus was confirmed in California Saturday. AP The first known case in the United States of a more severe strain of ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive examine monkeypox exposure, symptoms, and survival precautions.

What is monkeypox? Monkeypox is a zoonotic virus, meaning it transfers from animals to humans. Some animals that can carry monkeypox include various species of monkeys, giant-pouched rats, African ...

A deadly, fast-spreading strain of the monkeypox virus has the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on high alert. The variant of the virus, which causes the severe disease known as mpox, kills ...

Public health efforts are showing reassuring results. There are early signs that new monkeypox cases are slowing down in the U.S. Experts are optimistic that the virus can be completely eliminated ...