Researchers have employed a cross-species immunological analysis to provide new insights into a smallpox vaccine's ...

The recent global monkeypox (mpox) outbreak, with a new and aggressive variant, has underscored the dire need for safe, broadly effective, and accessible vaccines. The LC16m8 vaccine, an attenuated ...

Cases continue to climb sharply in Sierra Leone, and the head of the Africa Centre for Disease Control (Africa CDC) said the ...

The airport’s measures are part of a broader government strategy to prevent the spread of clade Ib, a new, more virulent strain of mpox that has a case fatality rate (CFR) of up to 10%.

Historically, most human mpox infections have resulted from zoonotic transmission --m eaning from animals to humans -- and these spillovers have rarely led to human-to-human transmission. But during ...

The virus responsible for mpox (formerly known as Monkeypox) was circulating for about eight years ago in West Africa before ...

Liberia's Ministry of Health and the National Public Health Institute have expressed concern over a rapid increase in mpox cases in neighboring Sierra Leone. The country has reported a total of 2,634 ...

The number of cases of mpox registered in Sierra Leone since the beginning of the year has hit 2,045, with 11 fatalities, ...