The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has confirmed that two more people have tested positive for an infectious strain of ...

MPOX may be spreading silently in the UK, experts warn, as officials race to contain a looming crisis. Three housemates living in London have already tested positive for the strain, never seen ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global health emergency over a new strain of mpox that is spreading ...

The virus is transmitted via close contact with someone who has mpox - skin-to-skin contact, breathing it in, or being in contact with the eyes, nose, mouth and genitals. Kanani said ...

Mpox or Monkeypox is a viral illness similar to smallpox. It has generalised symptoms and a skin lesion rash that emerges from the face before spreading to the rest of the body. Though rare in ...

Mpox -- previously known as monkeypox -- is a fast-spreading virus transmitted mainly through close skin-to-skin contact, especially during sex. Its symptoms include fever, painful rashes or sores ...

The virus can spread by any skin-to-skin contact, airborne contact ... Children may end up at higher risk due to the close resemblance of some of the signs and symptoms of mpox to other common ...

The two cases were detected in household contacts of the first case, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the UK to three.

The World Health Organization said on Monday it had approved Bavarian Nordic's mpox vaccine for adolescents aged 12 to 17 years, an age group considered especially vulnerable to outbreaks of the ...

El Paso County Health Authority Dr. Hector Ocaranza said MPox is an infectious disease. Ocaranza said the disease spreads from skin-to-skin contact and is not transmitted through air or casual ...

However, mpox isn't considered a sexually transmitted disease, because it also spreads via other forms of close contact, such as skin-to-skin contact or sharing towels, clothing or bedding with ...

Children, adolescents and those with weakened immune systems have been particularly vulnerable to mpox, a viral infection that typically causes flu-like symptoms and skin lesions filled with pus.