A new variant of human mpox has claimed the lives of approximately 5% of people with reported infections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2023, many of them children. Since then, it has ...
The Health Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at a press briefing in Kinshasa without specifying the date for ...
Three genera of African rodent, Graphiurus (African dormice), Cricetomys (giant pouched rat) and Funisciurus (African striped squirrel), have been named as likely reservoirs of the mpox virus.
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 new and aggressive strain of the potentially deadly mpox virus is spreading rapidly among children in the Democratic ...
Researchers funded by the US government left pathogen samples abroad without safeguards or arrangements for their return and ...
Democratic Republic of Congo has been unable to launch an mpox vaccination campaign in the capital Kinshasa due to a shortage ...
The World Health Organisation on Monday announced that it is set to convene its Emergency Committee on November 22 to assess ...
Meanwhile, Uganda’s outbreak is rapidly expanding, mostly involving intimate close-contact spread and among sexual networks.
Cases of mpox in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first detected appear to be "plateauing," ...
Dan Gertler, pictured at a mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2012, was initially sanctioned in 2017 The Biden administration recently re-imposed sanctions on Israeli businessman Dan ...