Although the smallpox jab has shown to reduce the chance of symptomatic infection and severe illness from monkeypox, protection may decline...

Monkeypox spreads primarily via intimate skin-to-skin contact.

To date, there have been more than 21,000 monkeypox cases reported in nearly 80 countries since May, with about 75 suspected deaths in Afri...

The total number of monkeypox cases in the US has increased to 5,189 as of Saturday, according to the latest update by the Centers for Dise...

Several pharma companies have initiated discussions with the Centre for the development of a potential vaccine against monkeypox, said sour...

SII's CEO Adar Poonawalla told ET he was talking with partners who have the potential to develop the vaccine. He, however, said there was n...

Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic infection caused by the Monkeypox virus. This means it can spread from animals to humans as well as from pers...

Delhi on Sunday saw its first case of the Monkeypox virus, the fourth in India overall. The patient reportedly has no history of travel out...

Declaring monkeypox to be a global emergency would mean the U.N. health agency considers the outbreak to be an "extraordinary event" and th...

According to the WHO, this year's monkeypox outbreak has been characterised by varying symptoms among those affected, with many cases "not ...

So far this year, over 1,600 confirmed and almost 1,500 suspected cases of monkeypox have been reported to the World Health Organisation (W...

To avoid its spread in India, stepping up screening of symptoms is necessary.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the risk of monkeypox becoming established in these non-endemic countries was real, bu...

While, so far, most cases have been reported among men who have sex with men presenting with symptoms at sexual health clinics, "the sudden...

Most children and adults with healthy immune systems are likely to dodge severe illness, experts. But there are two high-risk groups.

Monkeypox belongs to the Orthopoxvirus genus of viruses, which includes smallpox. Luckily, due to something called cross-protection, smallp...

Monkeypox is a usually mild viral illness, characterised by symptoms of fever as well as a distinctive bumpy rash.