Fecal analyses and necropsies suggest a fire-footed rope squirrel was the source of a 2023 mpox outbreak among sooty ...

Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH), a site of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), together with an interdisciplinary team of partners, have identified the fire ...

Humans have always battled microbes. But if the assaults seem to be coming more frequently and ferociously, that's because they are ...

WHO detects hybrid mpox strain combining clades Ib and IIb and calls for strengthened surveillance amid ongoing global ...

Scientists analyzed the carcass of a fire-footed squirrel, which was discovered 3 km from the territory of Mangabey 12 weeks ...

The detection of a newly identified recombinant mpox virus containing genetic material from two known strains underscores the need for continued genomic surveillance, the UN World Health Organization ...

Mpox is a zoonotic disease caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV) that can lead to severe illness in humans. It regularly spills over from wildlife to humans in West and Central Africa, and some of ...