Life finally started to feel normal again this summer. The COVID-19 pandemic was obviously not over, but we had a better grasp on it. Stores were reopening, mask mandates were dropped and people were ...

The Biden administration plans to officially switch how it refers to the disease once dubbed "monkeypox" to use the new name "mpox" instead, adopting a long-awaited renaming recommendation announced ...

Between May and mid-October 2022, clinicians diagnosed more than 72,000 cases of monkeypox in 102 countries that aren’t typically affected by the virus (see map). 1 This new pandemic has strained ...

In 2022, the medical establishment and public health world nixed the name "monkeypox" for two key reasons. Animal-to-human transmission comes from rodents. And the name "monkeypox" was seen as racist ...

The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist. Subscribe to read this ...

The first known case in the United States of a more severe strain of the monkeypox virus was confirmed in California Saturday as health officials said an individual who recently returned from Africa ...

The first case of clade I mpox, or monkeypox, was identified in Connecticut on Wednesday.

Since May 2022, a global outbreak of human monkeypox infections has been reported in over 78,000 people. So far, infections have overwhelmingly occurred in sexually active men who have sex with men.

Monkeypox is spread through close contact with skin lesions. For most, it resolves within weeks. Young children and the immune compromised are especially vulnerable to severe complications. The Africa ...