Georgios Pappas, a physician and zoonotic disease researcher, worries that another WHO exit would weaken the U.S.’s standing in global health. “Withdrawing or reducing U.S. support for the WHO and ...

The rash can leave long-term permanent scars if not properly managed ... The NHS is offering the smallpox (MVA) vaccine to ...

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

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

Democratic Republic of Congo has been unable to launch an mpox vaccination campaign in the capital Kinshasa due to a shortage ...

Private insurance companies in the U.S. aren’t required to cover the cost of the mpox vaccine, which costs $270 a dose.

The Access and Allocation Mechanism (AAM) for mpox has allocated an initial 899 000 vaccine doses for 9 countries across the African region that are hit hard by the current mpox surge.

The WHO declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years in August after a new variant of the ...

Pregnant women and infants are at risk should they contract mpox but there are no approved vaccines for this population.

The World Health Organisation and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have committed to guiding the ...

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 ...

Unlike the COVID-19 pandemic, there already exist vaccines that are effective against mpox and the viral illness has also been known about for decades. These two factors mean that countermeasures ...