Health officials said on Saturday they have confirmed the first US case of a new form of mpox that was first seen in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The person had travelled to eastern ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has struggled to launch an mpox vaccination campaign in the capital, Kinshasa, due to a ...

Mpox is a disease caused by the highly infectious monkeypox virus. It's quite easily passed on from one person to another.

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

The first reported human case of mpox was in 1970 in a nine-year-old boy in Zaire (today the Democratic Republic of Congo or DRC). This was during the drive to vaccinate people against smallpox.

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

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

The DR Congo's capital Kinshasa needs more than double the mpox vaccines it currently has to immunise all the city's at-risk ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global health emergency over a new strain of mpox that is spreading rapidly in Africa.