Children are particularly vulnerable to the new strain of the deadly mpox virus that is spreading globally after ... compared to 2.4% in people aged 15 and over. Transmission might be driven by ...

And studies published in the past year have demonstrated that African outbreaks of mpox, the disease caused by the virus, have been fueled by several transmission events from animals to humans.

The final aim is to strengthen collaboration across human health, animal health, and environmental sectors to understand and reduce the risk of mpox transmission between animals and humans.

However, the complete role of these squirrels in mpox transmission isn’t fully understood. Délia Doreen Djuicy, a disease ecologist at the Pasteur Center of Cameroon, tells Nature that the ...

Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, has been detected in North Carolina wastewater, prompting health officials to urge vigilance. While no clade I mpox cases have been reported in N.C., its ...

In a letter published last week (1 April) in the journal Nature, scientists at the University of Surrey, in the UK, warn that mpox is evolving from animal-to-human transmission to sustained human ...