SINGAPORE – Singapore’s health ministry will provide the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with up to ...

Global health advocates are urging Cepheid to lower the price of their GeneXpert mpox diagnostic test from $20 to $5. The high cost hinders testing in poorer countries, such as the Democratic Republic ...

Global health advocates have appealed to the makers of a crucial mpox diagnostic test to cut its cost from $20 to $5 per test ...

Leading energy companies TotalEnergies , BP , Shell and Equinor announced a $500-million joint investment commitment, aimed ...

Global health advocates have written to the makers of a key mpox diagnostic test to call for its price to be cut from around ...

A new variant of human mpox has claimed the lives of approximately 5% of people with reported infections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2023, many of them children. Since then, it has ...

Researchers have developed an optical biosensor that detects the virus that causes mpox. The technology could make diagnosis much faster and cost-effective as the disease continues to spread worldwide ...

An FDA-approved vaccine for smallpox and mpox is effective but causes side effects. The other requires multiple doses. An experimental single-dose vaccine uses the horsepox virus to harness the ...

New genetic sequencing results have now confirmed novel clade 1b mpox virus in recent cases from Zambia and Zimbabwe, ...

The African Union's health watchdog said Thursday it has endorsed an mpox test from Morocco, hailing it as a "major milestone ...