Monkeypox, caused by the monkeypox virus—a close cousin of smallpox—has spread rapidly worldwide. From 2022 to 2025, more than 133,000 cases were reported across 131 countries. In August 2024, the ...

Health officials are warning people who are infected with monkeypox to stay away from household pets, since the animals could ...

It might be time to grant the monkeypox virus a new name. Although the virus (mpox for short) was first detected in lab monkeys in 1958, the original host or reservoir has remained unknown.

Monkeypox is a disease caused by the monkeypox virus, a pathogen closely related to variola virus, which causes smallpox.

Analysis of a clade Ia strain of the virus circulating in Central Africa shows genetic mutations indicative of sustained human-to-human spread. Yet another strain of the virus that causes mpox might ...

Scientists have located and identified alterations in the monkeypox virus genome that potentially correlate with changes in the virus's transmissibility observed in the 2022 outbreak. Mount Sinai ...

One pandemic was bad enough. But in the summer of 2022, just as people were getting over the shared fear and trauma of the COVID global outbreak, world health officials declared a new public health ...

The U.S. Department of Justice charged two foreign-born researchers from the National Institutes of Health with smuggling the monkeypox virus into the U.S. in June 2026. Rating: True (About this ...

Monkeypox is a virus first found in monkeys in the 1950s that is transmissible to humans. In May, the World Health Organization reported outbreaks of the virus in several countries. Dr. Leanne Skehan, ...

A virulent strain of the monkeypox virus has gained the ability to spread through sexual contact, new data suggest. This has alarmed researchers, who fear a reprise of the worldwide mpox outbreak in ...

A deadly and fast-spreading new strain of mpox, the disease caused by the monkeypox virus, has global health officials ringing alarm bells. The new virus is "undoubtedly the most dangerous of all the ...

Health authorities are scrambling after the man in his 40s developed a mild illness shortly after his return to Sydney.