Eastern Visayas has recorded its first case of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, after test results from a patient from ...

Researchers have provided more evidence that mpox virus can be passed from a pregnant mother to her child. There remain ...

The disease, formerly known as monkeypox, is caused by a virus similar to the one that causes smallpox. “Cases have mainly spread through sex and other intimate contact among social networks of ...

KAKUMA, Kenya — At a refugee camp in northern Kenya , Aujene Cimanimpaye waits as a hot lunch of lentils and sorghum is ...

Currently, laboratory diagnosis is available through CDC. Once cases of smallpox are identified, the local or state health department will coordinate the public health response in cooperation with ...

A CASE of smallpox, which so far would appear to be an isolated one, was discovered in Greenock yesterday, a tug boatman named Neil McIntyre, 19 years of age, who resides with his mother at 42 ...

Smallpox is viewed as the most likely agent to be used as a biological weapon. Smallpox is very infectious; it is spread by droplet infection, causes a painful and disabling febrile disease, has ...

Share on Pinterest The CDC reports that 95% of measles cases in the U.S. are in people who are unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown. FG Trade/Getty Images The growing measles ...

She now covers breaking and trending news for CBS News' HealthWatch. The number of cases in Texas alone has grown to at least 750, while total cases nationwide have passed 1,197, with infections ...

DALLAS — More than 730 cases of measles have been reported in Texas, including seven here in North Texas, and two children in Lubbock have died from the virus, health officials said. The number ...