Monkeypox, caused by the monkeypox virus—a close cousin of smallpox—has spread rapidly worldwide. From 2022 to 2025, more ...

Although the virus (mpox for short) was first detected in lab monkeys in 1958, the original host or reservoir ... History shows that smallpox first arose around 1000 B.C. in Egypt and India. It was ...

According to the reports, this is the sixth case of the virus confirmed in the recent past. "What makes this case a unique one is that the individual who got infected with the virus strain has no ...

Elizabeth Griffin died on December 10 of complications from a herpes B virus infection. She caught the virus when a body fluid from a rhesus monkey hit her in the eye on October 29. The news was ...

and simian immunodeficiency virus,” the US Attorney’s Office said. The three monkeys who were taken by the San Diego Zoo have since been quarantined and transferred to the Brookfield Zoo ...