PETALING JAYA - Although no new mpox cases have been reported in Malaysia in 2024, the Health Ministry said it is ramping up surveillance and advocacy activities after the World Health ...

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia has recorded nine monkeypox (mpox) cases to date since the first case was detected on July 26, 2023, ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has recorded 10 cases of monkeypox (mpox) over the past two years, says Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad. "Nine cases occurred last year and one was reported on ...

Two more UK cases of the potentially deadly strain of the mpox virus have been detected in household contacts of the first ...

Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) virologist Professor Dr Zamberi Sekawi said mpox was different from Covid-19, which spreads more easily through droplets produced by saliva when talking or coughing.

This week, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced that a single confirmed human case of Clade Ib mpox has been ...

World Health Organization member countries resumed negotiations Monday to finalize an agreement on pandemic prevention, with ...

(NIAID) Malaysia's health ministry reported on Tuesday one new case of the mpox virus infection of the clade 2 variety, a less severe variant of the disease, and said the patient had been isolated ...

While clade 1 affects mainly children, the new mpox strain clade 1b largely impacts gay and bisexual men in Europe and the US ...

Those include mpox, which has spilled over from its animal hosts to infect humans in West and Central Africa with increasing frequency since the 1970s. Now, a dangerous, mutated strain of the ...

These days a new concern is on the minds of its visitors: mpox. The first human case of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, was described in the 1970s. The disease is thought to be caused by a ...

Matt Binnicker is the CSO for Mayo Collaborative Services. Due to the alarming surge in cases of mpox (formerly referred to as monkeypox), the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...