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

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, through its Diagnostic Advisory Committee (DAC), has recommended the first locally manufactured Real-Time PCR test for mpox from Morocco. In a ...

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

DRC remains the disease epicentre But the current surge is most prevalent in Africa and WHO said on Wednesday it had allocated an initial 899,000 doses of mpox vaccine for the nine African ...

He noted that the new Mpox strain, clade Ib, has spread beyond the DRC to other regions, including Europe. “Cases are still increasing in several countries as the continent struggles to contain ...

Split into clade 1a and clade 1b, clade 1b mpox first emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) just over a year ago, spreading mostly between adults through intimate and sexual contact.

This strain has been detected in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Thailand, India, Germany and six African countries that had never reported mpox infections before. The DRC has been hit particularly ...

The majority of deaths have been in the DRC, the epicentre of the outbreak, which launched a vaccination drive last month. "So far, more than 50,000 people have been vaccinated against mpox in the ...

DRC remains the disease epicentre But the current surge is most prevalent in Africa and WHO said on Wednesday it had allocated an initial 899,000 doses of mpox vaccine for the nine African countries ...

The first case of a new infectious and potentially deadly strain of mpox has been reported in the UK. The strain, known as Clade Ib, emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ...

Another case of the new strain of mpox has been detected in the UK ... the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda.

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 ...