Mpox - World Health Organization (WHO)
Aug 26, 2024 · Mpox is an infectious disease that can cause a painful rash, enlarged lymph nodes, fever, headache, muscle ache, back pain and low energy. Most people fully recover, but some get very sick. Mpox is caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV).
Mpox - World Health Organization (WHO)
Dec 9, 2024 · Mpox (previously known as monkeypox) is a viral disease caused by an orthopoxvirus called monkeypox virus. It spreads mainly through close contact with someone who has mpox, causing a painful rash, enlarged lymph nodes and fever. It can make people very sick and leave scars. The disease mainly spreads from person to person through close contact.
Mpox - World Health Organization (WHO)
Oct 16, 2024 · Mpox is an illness caused by the monkeypox virus. It is a viral infection which can spread between people, mainly through close contact, and occasionally from the environment to people via things and surfaces that have been touched by a person with mpox.
Mpox outbreak - World Health Organization (WHO)
Mpox is a viral disease caused by an orthopoxvirus. It spreads mainly through close contact with someone who has mpox, causing a painful rash, enlarged lymph nodes, and fever. It can make people very sick and leave scars. A global outbreak of …
Mpox Q&A: What you need to know about mpox - World Health …
13 May 2023 marks 1 year since the start of a rare mpox outbreak in the WHO European Region. Mpox cases rose drastically in the summer of 2022 as the disease swept through the Region. The outbreak has wound down since then, but this does not mean that mpox has gone away. We spoke to Dr Richard Pebody, who leads the High-threat Pathogen team at WHO/Europe to find …
Mpox (monkeypox) outbreak - World Health Organization (WHO)
Jun 5, 2022 · The patients initially presenting with mpox in the 2022 outbreak have mainly, but not exclusively, been identified among men who have sex with men (MSM) seeking care in sexual health clinics. However, it is important to note that anyone who has close contact with someone who is infectious can catch mpox, regardless of their sexual orientation.
Mpox – African Region - World Health Organization (WHO)
On 14 August 2024, the WHO Director-General determined that the upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a growing number of countries in Africa constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR), the highest level of alarm under the IHR. Here we describe the …
Mpox - Democratic Republic of the Congo - World Health …
Jun 14, 2024 · In December 2022, the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a national outbreak of mpox and an incident management system has been in place since February 2023, based on the increasing number of reported cases. Since September 2023, an outbreak of mpox in South Kivu province has continued to spread within the province and recently to …
Mpox - World Health Organization (WHO)
Mar 3, 2023 · Mpox, previously called monkeypox, is an infectious disease endemic to central and west Africa caused by the double-stranded DNA mpox virus. The virus is a member of the Orthopoxvirus genus in the Poxviridae family, related to the virus which caused smallpox which was eradicated in 1980. On 23 July 2022, WHO declared the global mpox outbreak to ...
WHO adds LC16m8 mpox vaccine to Emergency Use Listing
Oct 31, 2024 · The World Health Organization (WHO) has granted Emergency Use Listing (EUL) for the LC16m8 mpox vaccine, making it the second mpox vaccine to be supported by WHO following the Director-General’s declaration of an mpox public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 14 August 2024.