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

Nigeria, along with 16 other African countries, to receive support from the World Health Organization and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention to enhance mpox vaccine preparedness ...

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In an early sign that the mpox outbreak in Africa might be ebbing, some health officials report that case counts seem to be stabilizing in the Congo, the epicenter of the outbreak.

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The Congressional Budget Office estimates that if subsidies are allowed to expire next year, nearly 4 million people will lose their coverage in 2026 because they won’t be able to afford it, NBC News ...

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The distribution plan prioritizes the most affected regions, with the Democratic Republic of Congo receiving 85 percent of ...

Georgios Pappas, a physician and zoonotic disease researcher, worries that another WHO exit would weaken the U.S.’s standing ...

Patients with mpox (previously monkeypox ... prevention measures including pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis and provision of immunization against vaccine-preventable STIs including mpox. Patients ...

In response to the ongoing outbreak, the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday that it had allocated 899,900 vaccine doses to the nine African countries that are struggling mightily with ...

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 ...