The World Health Organization says mpox cases in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first ...

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

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

Since the current outbreak of mpox clade I began in eastern DR Congo in 2023, there has been a rapid increase in cases, primarily in DR Congo, and spread of the monkeypox virus to other countries in ...

Mpox strains are still mutating, further raising the risk of spread both in Africa and globally, Africa Centres for Disease ...

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

FOUR cases of the new, more infectious version of monkeypox that first emerged in Congo have now been identified in the UK – and an expert has warned of one lesser-known symptom to look out ...

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. In ...

YEALA TOWN, Lofa County – Junior cries to his mother as another stranger approaches the front of their house. The two-year-old has met too many new people since he came down with mpox in August. By ...

The full article is available here as HTML. [ADDIS ABABA] As Africa grapples with multiple outbreaks of mpox, public health leaders say locally produced vaccines are vital to end donation dependence ...

More information: Alexandra Savinkina et al, Modelling vaccination approaches for mpox containment and mitigation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, The Lancet Global Health (2024). DOI: 10. ...

Mpox spreads through close physical contact and can cause a rash, lymph node swelling, and fever. A vaccine is available, though delays in immunisations have slowed the public health response in ...