Democratic Republic of Congo has been unable to launch an mpox vaccination campaign in the capital Kinshasa due to a shortage ...

The World Health Organization will convene a meeting later this month to determine whether the mpox outbreak occurring in ...

As of 3 November, cases among children in the DRC had increased by over 130% from about 11,300 suspected cases to 25,600, while in Burundi, mpox has risen from 89 confirmed child cases to around 1,100 ...

Attempts to change the constitution of the Democratic Republic of Congo only exacerbate existing citizen distrust in ...

Split into clade 1a and clade 1b, clade 1b mpox first emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) just over a year ...

Mpox, a viral infection that was previously known as monkeypox, is spread primarily through close contact with an infected ...

In August 2024, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

The Access and Allocation Mechanism (AAM) for mpox has allocated an initial 899 000 vaccine doses for 9 countries across the African region that are hit hard by the current mpox surge.

Four cases of the more infectious variant of mpox have been reported in the U.K., making it the first cluster of infections ...

The spread of mpox has slowed down slightly across Africa but the epidemic is not over, the African Union's health watchdog ...

More than 50,000 people have so far been vaccinated against mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, the World Health Organization's chief said on Friday. The outbreak is still not under ...

The WHO declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years in August after a new variant of the ...