Monkeypox is a disease caused by the monkeypox virus, a pathogen closely related to variola virus, which causes smallpox. Monkeypox and smallpox infections trigger similar symptoms, but monkeypox ...

Google searches for "smallpox vaccine" have rocketed since monkeypox cases started turning up in people across Europe and North America who have no recent travel history to Africa. The search ...

Symptoms of monkeypox can also be compared with smallpox — a related virus that was declared eradicated in 1980. Like smallpox, monkeypox causes pus-filled boils. But monkeypox is generally ...

“Monkeypox is related to smallpox but with two important differences: it spreads between people much less easily than smallpox, and it generally causes much milder illness,” says Jonathan ...

Rimoin has been studying monkeypox, a less-virulent relative of smallpox, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for two decades. In 2010, she coauthored a study showing that incidence rates ...

WHO Smallpox Secretariat head Dr. Rosamund Lewis said GENEVA, May 30. /TASS/. The fast spread of monkeypox in non-endemic states may be connected to the lack of immunity for this disease in the ...

Similarly, these smallpox samples have no relevance to any research on the current monkeypox outbreak. Furthermore, holding onto stocks of smallpox doesn’t work as a deterrent. Through the Biological ...

TPOXX is approved in Europe for the treatment of monkeypox and in the US and elsewhere for the treatment of smallpox, but can be prescribed off-label. One of the new countries stockpiling the drug ...

People with untreated HIV are at greater risk for severe mpox. Mpox (monkeypox) is caused by a virus related to smallpox; both are members of the orthopox virus family. Mpox typically causes a rash ...

Wealthier countries are responding to the monkeypox outbreak by ordering more smallpox vaccines than they require, risking a reprise of the vaccine inequality seen during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Safe and effective treatment of monkeypox symptoms. Smallpox drug 'tecovirimat' heals skin lesions in 21 days, say researchers. There are 366 confirmed monkeypox cases in the UK, as of 9 June.