An outbreak of monkeypox has broken out in Europe and North America. Learn about how this disease and what causes it in this ...

Monkeypox, caused by the monkeypox virus—a close cousin of smallpox—has spread rapidly worldwide. From 2022 to 2025, more ...

On a humid January morning in 2023, deep in the heart of Côte d’Ivoire’s Taï National Park, a baby monkey fell ill. Its skin ...

The NCDHHS has warned N.C. residents about detections of mpox particles associated with more serious symptoms.

Even though the virus was first discovered in laboratory monkeys in 1958, the original source came from a squirrel.

Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, 33, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced on April 18 to four months in federal prison and ordered to pay $23 ...

Recent wastewater testing in eastern NC is prompting some concerns.

One of the two patients in the city confirmed to have contracted monkeypox has died due to complications, the Davao City ...

more monkeys got sick. Some died. For a small band of researchers, this tragic scene opened a rare window into one of infectious disease’s longest-standing mysteries: Where does the monkeypox ...

The World Health Organization has said the current outbreak of monkeypox is the largest ever recorded outside sub-Saharan Africa, with cases rising above the 100-mark a few days ago and the UK top ...

A preliminary study traces an mpox outbreak in a group of Ivory Coast monkeys to the fire-footed squirrel, indicating the ...