Mpox is a viral disease, formerly called monkeypox before the WHO changed its name in 2022 because of complaints it was racist and stigmatizing. The zoonotic disease can be transmitted to humans ...

The latest strain is a mutated version of clade I, a form of mpox spread by contact with infected animals that has been endemic in Congo for decades. A mutation is a change in an organism’s ...

Dr Kaseya said the Africa CDC had not seen any notable changes week-on-week over the past month in the DR Congo and warned that it was too early to say the mpox outbreak was under control.

The patient was traveling from East Africa, where the mpox disease is endemic. The CDC says the strain does not present a ...

Mpox, which comes from the same virus family as smallpox, spreads from animals to people, and it received its former name, monkeypox, because that is the animal it was first discovered in.

Dr Kaseya said the Africa CDC had not seen any notable changes week-on-week over the past month in the DR Congo and warned that it was too early to say the mpox outbreak was under control. With every ...

as critics said the name plays into racist stereotypes and prematurely suggests that monkeys are the main carriers of the disease. There are two types of mpox, clade I and clade II. They are ...

Mpox is a viral disease, formerly called monkeypox before the WHO changed its name in 2022 over complaints that it was racist and stigmatizing. The zoonotic disease can be transmitted to humans ...