A collaborative research effort between the A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs (A*STAR IDL) and the A*STAR Institute of High ...

There have been no cases of local transmission of the virus so far. The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared mpox an emergency of international concern on August 14, 2024. The virus is ...

There have been no cases of local transmission of the virus so far. The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared mpox an emergency of international concern on August 14, 2024. The virus is ...

Last year, eight mpox cases were reported, while the government confirmed nine cases in 2023, all among travellers returning from the Middle East and other countries. There have been no cases of local ...

The initial lack of screening at airports and ineffective quarantine measures allowed the virus to spread unchecked. Mpox may not have the same level of transmissibility, but it is still a ...

Monkeypox is a viral disease caused by the Mpox virus. Even though the natural reservoir of the virus remains unidentified, African rodents and non-human primates like monkey are suspected to ...

A study by A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs (A*STAR IDL) and A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing (A*STAR IHPC) has assessed the airborne transmission risk of mpox compared to SARS-CoV-2 and ...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department has detected a new mpox case in the provincial ... later and probably she had contracted the virus from her husband before being quarantined.

This is the latest in a series of mpox cases in Pakistan since the virus was first reported in the country on January 25, 2025, when a traveler from the Gulf tested positive at Peshawar airport.

The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at Pakistan’s National Institute of Health have confirmed the detection of the Wild Poliovirus Type 1 in sewage samples from 18 districts ...