Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A test tube labelled 'mpox virus positive' is held in this illustration [File: Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters] Mpox is no longer ...

Africa CDC and WHO have updated their joint Continental Response Plan for the mpox emergency as the disease continues to affect new areas. The revised strategy focuses on controlling outbreaks, while ...

The Department of Health has launched a targeted vaccination campaign to curb the spread of mpox in South Africa, following a gradual increase in laboratory-confirmed cases in 2025. With ten confirmed ...

Africa is set to record more mpox cases this year than it did in 2024, when an explosion of the virus prompted the declaration of an international health emergency. More than 64,000 cases have been ...

Historically, most human mpox infections have resulted from zoonotic transmission --m eaning from animals to humans -- and these spillovers have rarely led to human-to-human transmission. But during ...

Africa’s top health body wants mpox vaccines added to routine immunization in countries where the virus is endemic and has been detected in dogs, rats, bats and squirrels. While human-to-human ...

The organisation is working with countries and manufacturers to increase access to the needed vaccines. WHO in a statement stated that Nigeria received 10,000 doses of mpox vaccines on Tuesday. On Aug ...

Mpox is a viral disease usually transmitted from animals to humans and symptoms include fever and skin rashes. In 2023, a new variant of monkeypox virus (MPXV), called clade Ib, emerged in Kamituga in ...

DAKAR, May 8 (Reuters) - Sierra Leone accounted for half of Africa's confirmed mpox cases this week, the continent's main health body said on Thursday, adding that the West African country was ...

Participants from the Pan-African mpox consortium collaborated to produce and analyze mpox genomic data from West and Central Africa, resulting in a dataset that is around three times larger than any ...