Category: Monkeypox
France identifies first case of new mpox variant
Reuters rance has identified its first case of the new mpox variant, news agency AFP reported on Monday, citing a statement from the country’s health ministry. The patient had not traveled to Central Africa, where the new form of the virus originated but was in contact with two people who had returned from that region, […]
Jan 8, 2025
Mpox Is Spreading in Congo’s Capital, Threatening Global Efforts to Contain the Virus
NYT A NYT reporter went to Congo, where the mpox epidemic has reached the teeming capital, infecting children and their mothers, who sell sex to survive. Mireille Efonge got sick a few months ago, with a fever and painful blisters on her groin. She became too weak to move, so neighbors carried her to a […]
Jan 2, 2025
Mpox: German school temporarily closed after case reported
DW Contacts have been informed after several members of a family were found to have contracted mpox. Two school-age children are among those infected. A school in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia was closed as a precaution on Monday after two children were found to be infected with the mpox virus. The mpox clade 1b variant was […]
Dec 18, 2024
Congo’s mpox crisis
Science For the second time in 2 years, a long-overlooked virus poses a global threat. Can it be contained? In late September 2023, a 33-year-old man who co-owned a bar in Kamituga, a remote mining city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), developed lesions on his genitals and a fever. He first sought […]
Dec 10, 2024
UK: Confirmed cases of mpox clade Ib
gov.uk This release has been published in response to confirmed cases of clade Ib mpox in the UK. Whilst numbers remain low updates will be released on an ad-hoc basis. As of 29 November 2024, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has confirmed 5 cases of clade Ib mpox in the UK. The first case […]
Dec 4, 2024
Canada Confirms First Case of New Mpox Variant
Bloomberg Canada confirmed its first case of a dangerous new mpox variant but said the risk to the general population remains low. The first case of clade I mpox was found in an individual in the province of Manitoba, the country’s public health agency said in a statement. A public health investigation, which includes contact tracing, […]
Nov 26, 2024
Florida has more than 100 mpox cases. Now, a more severe form has been reported in U.S.
Miami Herald The United States has reported its first confirmed case of the more contagious form of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week issued a health advisory, stating that while the country’s risk for the more severe form of mpox remains low, doctors should be on […]
Nov 20, 2024
First Case of Clade I Mpox Diagnosed in the United States
CDC The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is issuing this Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory to provide information about the first case of clade I mpox diagnosed in the United States and recommendations to clinicians about preventing, diagnosing, treating, and reporting mpox cases. On November 15, 2024, the California Department of Public […]
Nov 20, 2024
First U.S. Case of Spreading New Mpox Type Reported in California
NYT The unidentified patient had recently returned from Africa, where the virus has caused a deadly epidemic, health officials said. A person in California has tested positive for a form of mpox causing a widespread epidemic in Africa, the state’s Department of Public Health reported on Saturday. It is the first known case in the […]
Nov 19, 2024
Multi-country outbreak of mpox, External situation report #42- 9 November 2024
WHO (download pdf )This is the 42nd situation report for the multi-country outbreak of mpox, which provides an update on the epidemiological situation of mpox in Africa (including countries in the WHO African Region and some countries in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region), with data as of 3 November 2024. On 22 November 2024, WHO […]
Nov 12, 2024