The organisation’s latest situation report on the global outbreak of mpox showed another strain, known as clade Ib, spreading ...

The cases in Australia are a variant of clade 2. It comes amid an mpox outbreak in NSW that the state's chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant has labelled "very concerning". Chant said earlier this ...

four in the Northern Territory and two in Western Australia. Mpox is caused by the monkeypox virus, which is from the same family as the one responsible for smallpox.. In August, Australia had the ...

Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, drew global attention in 2022 during an outbreak that affected the U.S., Europe, Australia and many other countries. The virus comes in two distinct forms or "clades ...

The first case of a new strain of mpox in the United States has been reported in San Mateo County, officials said Saturday.

The mpox outbreak has reached its peak in Victoria in line with a national surge to more than 1000 cases in 2024, with some patients ending up in hospital.