A day later, Swedish officials said they recorded their first case of the mpox virus. Start the day smarter. Get all the news ...

Mpox is caught through close contact. If you get infected, it usually takes between five and 21 days for the first symptoms to appear. They commonly include cold and flu-like symptoms such as a fever, ...

Mpox is an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus, which is not a new virus. It was discovered in 1958 in a colony of monkeys that were being researched. Though it's named "monkeypox ...

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

Mpox is caused by a virus in the same family as smallpox but is usually much less harmful. It was originally transmitted from animals to humans but now also passes between humans. Initial symptoms ...

In 2022, the virus was confirmed to spread via sex for the first time and triggered outbreaks in more than 70 countries across the world that had not previously reported mpox. Mpox belongs to the ...

Formerly known as monkeypox, the virus that was first identified by scientists in 1958 when there were outbreaks of a “pox-like” disease in monkeys. The name was changed to mpox because it is ...

Mpox has been declared as public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) twice by the World Health Organization ...

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