Vaccines that prevent smallpox and mpox come in two varieties. One uses a single shot of a live virus but carries the risk of ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo has been unable to launch an mpox vaccination campaign in the capital ...

Several African and ex-Soviet countries have expressed interest in buying Russia's vaccine against smallpox and mpox viruses, ...

Emergent BioSolutions, one of only three companies with a vaccine for mpox, has agreed to donate 50,000 doses of its shot for use in the current outbreak concentrated in central Africa ...

There is one internationally approved vaccine for mpox (another is approved in Japan with emergency approval in the DRC), which can act as both preexposure and postexposure prophylaxis for people ...

GOMA, Congo — (AP) — Some health officials say mpox cases in Congo appear to be "stabilizing" — a possible sign that the main epidemic for which the World Health Organization made a global ...

KIBATI, Democratic Republic of Congo, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Congo needs to do more to raise awareness about mpox and the availability of vaccines, an official with the response team said on Thursday ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Wednesday that it has distributed 899,900 vaccine doses to nine African countries battling mpox outbreaks. The WHO declared mpox to be a "public ...

A clinical trial of an mpox vaccine in adolescents found it was safe and generated an antibody response equivalent to that seen in adults, according to a planned interim analysis of study data.

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. Africa is currently ...

In the Yale study, researchers created a mathematical model to identify effective vaccination strategies for mpox in the DRC. The study analyzed multiple hypothetical scenarios where the modeled ...

Scientists also say there needs to be an urgent, broader vaccination effort for the entire continent to halt mpox’s spread ...