California health officials have recently reported the first known case of clade I mpox to be detected in the U.S.

Origins and Basics Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) is a viral illness that belongs to the same family as smallpox. First identified in Denmark in 1958 among two colonies of monkeys kept for ...

Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, is a viral disease related to the now-eradicated ... The first U.S. case of a more severe ...

The monkeypox is caused by a virus transmitted to humans by infected animals and it can also be passed from human to human ...

and their diagnosis is related to the ongoing outbreak in Central and Eastern Africa. Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, is a ...

The first known case in the United States of a more severe strain of the monkeypox virus was confirmed in California Saturday ...

The unidentified patient had recently returned from Africa, where the virus has caused a deadly epidemic, health officials ...

California has reported the first US case of mpox - formerly known as monkeypox - that is part of a new outbreak. The state's ...

has declared a global health emergency over a new strain of mpox that is spreading rapidly in Africa. Thousands of cases of the disease – formerly known as monkeypox – and hundreds of deaths ...

The rapid spread of a new variant of mpox – previously known as monkeypox – has prompted the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to declare a public health emergency.

Some believed this could reinforce harmful stereotypes, particularly as the disease began spreading more widely outside of Africa. The name "monkeypox" originated because the virus was first ...