With the world still on edge following the COVID-19 pandemic, news that a person has died in Alaska of the Alaskapox virus is understandably dredging up new worries. The virus, first discovered in ...

DALLAS, Texas -- A traveler is hospitalized in Dallas with a case of human monkeypox after a recent visit to Nigeria, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In a statement ...

Four cases of chickenpox have been confirmed at Fairview Elementary School, according to Buncombe County Health and Human ...

An elderly man living in a remote region in southern Alaska has become the first person to die from a recently discovered viral disease known as Alaskapox. The illness is believed to have been ...

Mpox (monkeypox) is a viral illness caused by the monkeypox virus, a species of the genus Orthopoxvirus. Two different clades exist: clade I and clade II Common symptoms of mpox are a skin rash or ...

The chicken pox vaccine became available in the U.S. in 1995 and, since then, cases of the virus in the U.S. have plummeted. But chicken pox still emerges from time to time. Montana public health ...

Health officials say a trio of vaccine-preventable illnesses is circulating during an already busy winter virus season.

In a recent study published in Tropical Medicine and International Health, researchers conducted a scoping review of available literature on monkeypox (MPX). MPX is a zoonosis caused by the MPX virus ...

The risk of people with monkeypox passing the virus to their pets is low, the authors of a new study that found no such transmissions in the United Kingdom have concluded. The study’s findings offer a ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers studied different antigens targeted by vaccinia virus (VACV)- and monkeypox virus (MPXV)-specific T cells. Study: Defining antigen ...