India has reported its first mpox case with the highly transmissible clade 1b strain. A 38-year-old man from Kerala, recently returned from Dubai, has been infected with the new variant.
An initial 899,000 vaccine doses have been allocated for 9 countries across Africa that have been hit hard by the current mpox surge, the WHO and other health organisations said on Wednesday.
The UK Health Security Agency has identified the first case of the mpox variant Clade Ib in Britain. The variant, linked to a global health emergency, was found in a patient traveling from Africa. It ...
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 ...