Yesterday the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the European Commission highlighted the launch of the Partnership to Accelerate Mpox Testing and Sequencing in Africa ...

PAMTA is co-funded under the EU4Health 2024 Work Programme, with a total commitment of €9.4 million directed toward Africa ...

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.

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, previously known as monkeypox, is a part of the same virus family that causes smallpox, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is not related to chickenpox.

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared mpox a global public health emergency, as U.S. health officials continued to warn about the risk of its spread. The WHO issued an emergency for ...

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 ...

Health workers monitor Mpox patients at the Mpox treatment centre of the Nyiragongo general reference hospital, north of the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on August 16, 2024.

Mpox is caused by a virus in the same family as smallpox, a virus that was declared eradicated in 1980. The virus, which is carried by small rodents in some countries in Africa, causes painful ...

He's talking about mpox, a virus that causes painful blisters and can be fatal. For much of the world, mpox — formerly known as monkeypox — seems like a virus from a few years ago.

As of this summer, the CDC still considers the risk of mpox to the general public in the U.S. very low, but said the risk is slightly higher among men who have sex with men. During the global ...

August 19 The Philippines reported its first case of mpox this year in a 33-year-old man with no history of travel outside the country, the Department of Health said, later adding that the case is ...