Mpox spreads through close contact and typically causes mild symptoms, though it can be fatal in rare cases. Symptoms include flu-like signs and pus-filled lesions on the body. In response to the ...

The World Health Organization will hold a meeting next week to decide if mpox remains a global health crisis. The disease, prevalent in Africa, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has ...

Research shows a single yellow fever vaccine provides lifelong immunity, with breakthrough infections being rare, supporting WHO guidelines on vaccination.

The disease which continues to spread in Africa is currently classified by the UN health body as a public health emergency of international concern ...

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Health officials began providing the safety gear long before the first human case in California was announced in October.

The World Health Organization will convene a meeting of its Emergency Committee next week to determine whether mpox remains a ...

This was as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) committed to guiding the development of targeted monkeypox (mpox) vaccine ...

In anticipation of further mpox vaccine deliveries to the African region in the coming months, countries had requested support on identifying and mapping mpox hotspots, based on the local epidemiology ...

The amounts each country receives will be determined by the Access and Allocation Mechanism platform established by the World ...

Kenya is among nine countries in Africa that have been allocated MPOX vaccine doses, following an MPOX surge in the continent ...

In September, U.S. President Joe Biden pledged $500 million and 1 million vaccine doses to an mpox response plan led by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, which is battling an mpox ...