While any outbreak of a major illness or disease should be taken seriously, experts offer some reassuring words about why there’s no need to become overly anxious about monkeypox. “It’s ...

Monkeypox is a viral disease causing fever, rash, and swollen lymph nodes, spreading through close contact.

Related: What Is Monkeypox, and How Worried Should We Be? Here's What Doctors Say Monkeypox is a disease that is spread by a virus, which is acquired through close contact with an infected individual.

Learn more about recent monkeypox mutations that have increased the disease’s ability to spread between humans.

Update (November 28): The World Health Organization announced today that, to avoid the potential for racist and stigmatizing language, it will begin using the term “mpox” for the disease and will ...

Infectious disease expert Andrea McCollum, who investigates monkeypox outbreaks for the CDC, said she decided to get vaccinated with ACAM2000 because it was recommended for her work, at a time ...

According to Reuters, the patient in the UAE began showing symptoms of mpox on January 11 and was diagnosed with the disease ...

A new strain of monkeypox has been detected in the US, prompting alarm among health officials. The New York State Department of Health confirmed Tuesday that it had detected a case of clade Ib ...

Islamabad: Pakistan has reported its first case of viral disease Monkeypox, also known as mpox, in 2025, ARY News reported. The patient, who returned from Dubai on January 24, was identified ...

The Karnataka government has declared free treatment for all persons affected with the monkeypox disease. Earlier, the fr ...