While that’s still the case, the WHO declared mpox to be a global health emergency after cases of the viral infection jumped ...

Intensifying mpox outbreak as both subclade Ia and Ib strains show signs of sustained human-to-human transmission in Kinshasa ...

This strain has been detected in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Thailand, India, Germany and six African countries that had ...

The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has a unique role to play given the intersection of HIV and mpox, as well as the potential to leverage its platform in the Democratic Republic ...

WHO has allocated 899,000 mpox vaccine doses to nine African nations, prioritising those hit hardest by the latest outbreak.

More than 14,000 cases and 700 deaths from mpox occurred in the DRC in 2023, with 70% of those cases diagnosed in children. So far in 2024, Congolese authorities have reported more than 31,000 ...

Across Africa, at least 1000 people have died in this latest outbreak, although, in most cases, the infection is mild. The ...

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

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

The first case of a new infectious and potentially deadly strain of mpox has been reported in the UK. The strain, known as ...

As Africa grapples with multiple outbreaks of mpox, public health leaders say locally produced vaccines are vital to end donation dependence and secure the continent's health.

The two most commonly used shots currently are MVA-BN and LC16; during the global outbreak of clade 2 mpox, it was the former that was deployed in Britain, under the brand name Imvanex. The DRC ...