SEATTLE (AP) — Viral infection levels continue to trend downward in Washington, bringing the state into a “cautiously optimistic” place as COVID-19 and monkeypox prevention efforts continue. State ...

As monkeypox continues to spread in the United States, Tufts health personnel have shared advice with the Daily on ways students can avoid contracting the disease. A rare disease that is endemic to ...

Three days after the CDC issued a health advisory on monkeypox cases in the United States in May, the Florida Department of Health reported the state’s first presumptive case of the viral disease. A ...

A deadly, fast-spreading strain of the monkeypox virus has the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on high alert. The variant of the virus, which causes the severe disease known as mpox, kills ...

More than two years into the pandemic, people are ready to party, but COVID-19 is still with us, and the emergence of monkeypox among gay and bisexual men presents a new health threat. Health ...

Just a few days after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the end of the mpox (formerly monkeypox) international emergency, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has ...

While the World Health Organization recently declared a global public health emergency for a more contagious type of mpox, formerly called monkeypox, the spread of another type that first emerged in ...

After close to 30,000 infections, 15 reported deaths, and more than one million doses of vaccine, it appears as though the widespread nature of the U.S. monkeypox outbreak may be nearing an end.

Monkeypox is a zoonotic disease caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV), which is a potential biological warfare agent of bioterrorism and poses the greatest threat to the world's public biosafety and ...

Mpox is the new name public health officials are using for monkeypox. The World Health Organization announced last week it would begin using “mpox” as the preferred term for monkeypox because of ...

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