The Department of Health has urged the public to remain vigilant regarding symptoms of mpox, as three additional laboratory-confirmed cases of the disease have been identified in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng.

Health officials confirm six mpox cases in Ekurhuleni, with three already recovered. While the situation remains controlled, ...

The department of health has confirmed three new cases of mpox were detected in Ekurhuleni in Gauteng. The newly detected ...

The viral zoonotic disease mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) has periodically affected African nations since its discovery in 1958. Historically, it remained confined to specific regions ...

US FDA approves freeze-dried version of Bavarian Nordic's mpox, smallpox vaccine The vaccine's liquid-frozen formulation, which was approved by the FDA in September 2019, had specific cold-chain ...

A new mutated variant of Mpox has been identified in Democratic Republic of Congo, with health authorities concerned over increased transmissibility. The new variant comes from the clade 1a strain ...

Clade I, the culprit in the current 2025 version of global epidemic mpox, is highly transmissible and is spreading within families and among children, whereas the 2022 Clade II mpox - still ...

The MVA-BN vaccine showed an overall effectiveness of 57.8% (95% CI, 11.8-83.0) in reducing mpox cases at 14 days or longer after the first dose; however, the effectiveness was lower in people ...

New data on Mpox vaccine effectiveness Date: March 19, 2025 Source: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Summary: A study has found that a single dose of the Imvanex vaccine provides protection ...

KARACHI: Following the detection of the first mpox case in Karachi, the provincial health department has requested the concerned authorities to accelerate the screening of all passengers entering ...

The study addresses a critical question in public health: could mpox evolve to become efficiently airborne like its viral relative, smallpox? While close physical contact remains the dominant mode ...

Pakistan has reported its second case of mpox this year, with a 29-year-old man from Karachi testing positive for the viral infection. This marks the first case in Sindh and follows an earlier ...