Tanzania has confirmed its first two cases of mpox, the health ministry said Monday, the first time the virus has been detected in an outbreak that has hit several African countries. Two ...

Mpox, caused by a virus from the same family as smallpox, can be transmitted between humans through close physical contact. It causes fever, muscular aches and large boil-like skin lesions ...

“On March 9, 2025 (Sunday), laboratory results confirmed that both individuals were infected with the Mpox virus. Therefore, a total of two cases have now been confirmed,” she said. “With this report, ...

TPOXX is approved for smallpox, but has been used off-label to treat mpox (formerly known as monkeypox), which is in the same virus family, in many countries. The antiviral was also cleared in the ...

Dar es Salaam. The Ministry of Health has confirmed two cases of Mpox, marking the first time the disease has been reported in Tanzania. The confirmation, made by Minister of Health Jenister Mhagama ...

Eastern Congo had been the epicenter of an mpox outbreak, spurred by a new form of the virus that quickly spread to African neighbors and led the World Health Organization to declare it a global ...

Currently the DRC is in the middle of a large mpox outbreak, with thousands of cases caused by clade 1b, a more transmissible strain of the virus. So far this year Brazil has reported 52 cases of mpox ...

Mar. 10, 2025 — In multiple sclerosis (MS), antibodies to the common Epstein-Barr virus can accidentally attack a protein in the brain and spinal cord. New research shows that the combination of ...