Alaska health officials confirmed the state’s first fatal case of Alaskapox — a recently discovered viral disease. An elderly immunocompromised man from the Kenai peninsula, south of Anchorage, died ...

Share on Pinterest There have been seven reported cases of Alaskapox since it was identified in 2015. annhfhung/Getty Images An older adult with an underlying medical condition died in Alaska as a ...

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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 ...

A man dying from the newly discovered Alaskapox indicates that the viral disease could be "more geographically widespread" than previously thought, according to the Alaska Section of Epidemiology. His ...