Mpox
Last updated: September 2025
Mpox is the updated name for monkeypox as recommended by WHO. Resources linked here may use either name.
Information for health professionals
- East Cheshire NHS Trust: Mpx SBAR Update 2024.
- UK Health Security Agency: Mpox: background information (Updated May 2025).
- Mpox: technical assessment – including an update on the current risk to the UK (Published October 2025).
- Mpox: guidance on when to suspect a case of mpox (Updated June 2025.
- HAIRS risk assessment: mpox (Updated March 2025).
- UpToDate: Treatment and prevention of mpox (Updated May 2025).
- BMJ Best Practice: Mpox (Updated September 2025).
- Public Health Wales: Mpox – Information for health professionals (available in Welsh).
- National Library of Medicine (NLM): Mpox virus taxonomy dataset
- RCNI Nursing Standard Podcast: Monkeypox: how nurses can spot and treat it – and protect themselves (July 2022).
- Dynamed: Mpox (Updated September 2025).
Patient information
- NHS: Mpox.
- NHS Inform: Mpox.
- BMJ Best Practice: Mpox Patient Information.
- Patient.Info: Mpox virus.
- PaSH Partnership: Mpox frequently asked questions and vaccination information.
- NI Direct: Mpox.
Global information
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control: Strategies and guidelines on mpox.
- Factsheet for health professionals on mpox (Updated October 2024).
- World Health Organisation (WHO): Mpox.
Statistics
- Global Change Data Lab: Mpox data map (Updated July 2025).
- WHO: Global Mpox Trends (Published September 2025).
- Virological: MPXC data.