The new and aggressive strain of the potentially deadly mpox virus is spreading rapidly among children in the Democratic ...

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

Cases of mpox in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first detected appear to be "plateauing," ...

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

Four cases of the more infectious variant of mpox have been reported in the UK, making it the first cluster of infections that have surfaced outside of Africa.

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

Congo reported fewer than 100 mpox cases last week, down from nearly 400 in July but infections have risen in Burundi and ...

The World Health Organization says mpox cases in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Brazzaville (Congo), Oct 26 (IANS) Congo has launched the second phase of vaccination against mpox. Congo launched the first phase of vaccination in the most affected provinces on ...

Vaccinating children under five-years-old in endemic mpox regions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) would significantly reduce the number of deaths in the country, according to an ...

Prior to 2022, most cases were reported from the DR Congo, Nigeria and about a dozen other African countries. In 2003, mpox was recorded in the US when an outbreak occurred following the ...

Lwiro, a small settlement in eastern Congo surrounded by banana and cassava fields, sits at the center of a spiraling epidemic caused by a new version of the Mpox virus—one that is ...