A new variant of human mpox has claimed the lives of approximately 5% of people with reported infections in the Democratic ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Four cases of the more infectious variant of mpox have been reported in the UK, making it the first cluster of infections that have surfaced outside of Africa.

Congo reported fewer than 100 mpox cases last week, down from nearly 400 in July but infections have risen in Burundi and ...

Intensifying mpox outbreak as both subclade Ia and Ib strains show signs of sustained human-to-human transmission in Kinshasa ...

However, this virus—transmitted through blood or bodily fluids—causes hemorrhagic fever with a mortality rate that can reach up to 88%. Since the start of the outbreak, authorities have been ...