Mpox

A test tube labelled "Mpox virus positive" is held in this illustration taken August 20, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Europe

France identifies first case of new mpox variant: AFP

The patient had not traveled to Central Africa, where the new form of the virus originated but was in contact with two people who had returned from that region

An image created during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox, which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), 1996 to 1997, shows the hands of a patient with a rash due to monkeypox. Photo: Reuters
Health

2 UK mpox cases first local transmission in Europe: WHO

The hands of a patient with skin rashes caused by the mpox virus are pictured at the treatment center of Vijana Hospital in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo August 30, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Justin Makangara/File Photo
Health

Mpox cases on African continent show 500% increase year-on-year

An undated colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox virus particles (pink) found within an infected cell (yellow), cultured in the laboratory, captured at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Photo: NIAID/Handout via REUTERS
Health

Britain identifies its first case of new mpox variant

An undated colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox virus particles (pink) found within an infected cell (yellow), cultured in the laboratory, captured at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Photo: NIAID/Handout via REUTERS
Health

Zimbabwe reports first two mpox cases of unspecified variant

A test tube labelled "Mpox virus positive" is held in this illustration taken August 20, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Health

WHO approves first mpox diagnostic test for emergency use

An undated colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox virus particles (pink) found within an infected cell (yellow), cultured in the laboratory, captured at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Photo: NIAID/Handout via REUTERS
Health

Australia sees surge in mpox cases

A test tube labelled "Mpox virus positive" is held in this illustration taken August 20, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
South Asia

India reports first case of mpox from new, fast-spreading clade 1b variety

Photo: Collected
Health

Global vaccine alliance GAVI to buy 500,000 doses of mpox vaccine

FILE PHOTO: Test tubes labelled "Monkeypox virus positive and negative" are seen in this illustration taken May 23, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Health

World better positioned against mpox than for Covid: Vaccine alliance

FILE PHOTO: A test tube labelled "Mpox virus positive" is held in this illustration taken August 20, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
South Asia

India reports case of mpox in traveller from affected country

Omar Kagoma shows the marks on the skin of his six-year-old son Moussa Niyonkuru, after he recovered from Mpox, outside their house in Kinama zone, in Bujumbura, Burundi, August 28, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ngendakumana Evrard
Health

Mpox patients lack medicine, food, in east DR Congo hospital

A test tube labelled "Mpox virus positive" is held in this illustration taken August 20, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Health

Mpox vaccines to arrive in DR Congo in next few days: WHO