Wiping out smallpox had an unintended consequence: the rise of mpox in the past few years. Here's the story — starting with ...

Goma, DR Congo: The Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of an mpox epidemic ... with the program due to target the general population from Monday in the east of the country, where the ...

Geneva: The UN health agency said on Friday that it had approved the use of the first diagnostic test for mpox, a key tool in countries battling outbreaks. More than 800 people have died across ...

The original mpox outbreak began in 2022, but case numbers have rumbled on, despite countermeasures. Ben Hargreaves finds that a new variant of the virus is spreading more rapidly, and the ...

The only antiviral recognised as an mpox treatment was unable to shorten the time to resolution of lesions in a trial in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the epicentre of an outbreak ...

The authors derive a criterion for when β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combinations can select against a β-lactam-resistant bacterial strain. In particular, the private benefit of resistance is ...

Population genetics is the study of the genetic composition of populations, including distributions and changes in genotype and phenotype frequency in response to the processes of natural ...

Population is the number of people in a certain area. The population of a country changes over time due to birth rates, death rates and migration. © 2024 BBC. The ...

A nurse takes a sample from a suspected mpox patient at a hospital in South Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Aug 29. ARLETTE BASHIZI/REUTERS The United Nations Children's Fund ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that it has approved the first mpox diagnostic test for emergency use, which will boost diagnostic capacity in countries facing outbreaks of the ...

Ghana has registered its first mpox case this year, sparking global concern about the swiftly spreading virus. Health authorities are testing to identify the variant. The World Health Organization ...