The cases in Australia are a variant of clade 2. It comes amid an mpox outbreak in NSW that the state's chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant has labelled "very concerning". Chant said earlier this ...

four in the Northern Territory and two in Western Australia. Mpox is caused by the monkeypox virus, which is from the same family as the one responsible for smallpox.. In August, Australia had the ...

The mpox outbreak has reached its peak in Victoria in line with a national surge to more than 1000 cases in 2024, with some patients ending up in hospital.