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The individual has been isolated and officials assured there is no risk of infection to the surrounding community.
Switzerland has reported its first case of a particularly serious variant of Mpox – formerly known as monkeypox.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) have updated their ...
Africa CDC and WHO have updated their joint Continental Response Plan for the mpox emergency as the disease continues to affect new areas ...
A traveler returning to Switzerland from Africa has been confirmed to have clade 1b mpox. This is the first detection of ...
More than 350 health emergency experts took part in a two-day simulation looking at how they would deal with “mammothpox”, an invented virus similar to smallpox and mpox that was described as ...
Two pandemics of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) are ongoing, and currently, we have no proven therapies. The pandemic caused by clade I MPXV is focused in central and eastern Africa ...
Years of negotiations culminated in the wee small hours of Wednesday with countries agreeing the text of a landmark accord on ...
Mpox is a viral infection caused by a virus that belongs to the same family as smallpox. The virus can cause a painful rash, fever, and swollen glands and, in some cases, lead to more serious ...
Switzerland has reported its first case of the new mpox variant, Clade 1b. This content was published on April 9, 2025 - ...