The vaccine contains live, weakened vaccinia virus — a relative of smallpox and monkeypox that’s not harmful to healthy people but can cause serious illness in people who are severely ...

Monkeypox and smallpox are both viral diseases caused by viruses from the same genus family, Poxviridae, but they have distinct differences in terms of symptoms, severity, and treatments.

Health officials are scrambling to stretch scarce doses of vaccine to slow the mounting monkeypox outbreak, but do older people already vaccinated as kids for the related but deadlier smallpox ...

Claims on social media say that smallpox vaccines offer protection against monkeypox infection. Since monkeypox is “closely related” to the virus that causes smallpox, smallpox vaccines “can ...

Mpox is an illness caused by the monkeypox virus, a member of the Orthopoxvirus genus. It was first identified in 1958 in ...

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (PIA) — The Department of Health (DOH) in northern Mindanao apprised members of the Regional Peace and ...