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Public health experts from some of the nation’s leading research universities have deployed a massive medical trailer to rural parts of the South as part of an ambitious and unusual new health study

While WHO and Africa CDC declare public health emergencies over mpox, questions of vaccine access are critical

Cases of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, have been detected in Sweden and Pakistan, just days after the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency in response to the resurgence of cases in Africa. The current outbreak is centered on the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the disease has…

Mpox, which is now considered a public health emergency, is typically mild but can be fatal

Other examples of neglected diseases include the West Nile, Zika and Chikungunya viruses

Sequencing of confirmed case under way to determine whether virus is same deadly Clade 1 variant discovered by Sweden.

China will monitor people and goods entering the country for mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, for the next six months, its customs administration said on Friday, after the WHO designated the outbreak a global public health emergency earlier this week. Pakistan on Friday confirmed the first case in Asia of…

Researchers say such activities could be important tool in improving public health

Following the WHO's declaration that the mpox outbreak in Africa is a global health emergency, Sweden reported its first case of a deadlier clade of the virus.

The Democratic Republic of Congo said Thursday an mpox outbreak has killed 548 people there this year, as the first case outside Africa of the virus's more dangerous variant was recorded in a traveller in Sweden.

WHO has declared mpox outbreak in parts of Africa a public health emergency