The New York State Department of Health issued a health advisory about the emergence of a new strain of mpox (formerly monkeypox). The person had recently traveled from Africa.

The first case of a new infectious strain of mpox has been detected in Europe after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared outbreaks in Africa a global emergency. Experts said the new strain ...

Mpox can be infectious for up to four days before symptoms occur, but it is most contagious from the time symptoms appear until about two to four weeks later, according to Druckman. 4 ...

The strain of mpox causing international concern is different than the one that spread in 2022. ... so infectious disease experts are concerned about further international spread.

A more infectious strain of mpox that has led to public health emergencies in Central and Eastern Africa has been discovered in New York. It is the fourth known case of the strain in the United ...

The mutant virus comes from the older clade 1a strain of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox. The variant is more deadly than the clade 2 strain, which triggered a global outbreak in 2022, and the ...

Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, is a viral infection that spreads through close person to person contact. There are different strains of the virus, but the two major ones are Clade 1 and Clade 2.

Clade 2 was the strain that caused the 2022 global outbreak, the CDC noted. ... reiterated that mpox is "considerably less infectious" for person-to-person spread than COVID-19. ...

Scientists studying the new mpox strain that has spread out of Democratic Republic of Congo say the virus is changing faster than expected, and often in areas where experts lack the funding and ...

The mpox strain spreading now is different from the one in 2022: Here's what to know This strain of the virus is known to be more severe, but it’s behaving differently from its usual patterns.