LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization has declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen ...

The mpox outbreaks in Africa are a global emergency, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen countries, the World Health Organization declared Wednesday. The declaration ...

For decades after the identification of mpox in humans in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1970, the disease was largely confined to the rural areas of Central and West Africa and thus did ...

Johannesburg — Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Thursday they would start administering mpox vaccinations on Oct. 2, about a week sooner than initially planned, in a bid to ...

Innocent Murula, a UNICEF-supported community outreach worker, works to raise community awareness about mpox in Kamanyola, South Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on July 25, 2024. The ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The first 10,000 mpox vaccines are finally due to arrive next week in Africa, where a dangerous new strain of the virus - which has afflicted people there for decades - has caused ...

Beginning in the spring of 2022, mpox (formerly monkeypox) began spreading around the globe in countries outside of Africa that had rarely seen cases in the past. The mpox virus involved has infected ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mpox outbreak in Africa is yet another example of how infectious diseases perceived to be “someone else’s problem”, and ...

South African laboratory Aspen Pharmacare says it is ready to manufacture vaccines against the virus previously known as monkeypox. The occurrence of the mpox epidemic, with its epicentre in the DRC, ...

LONDON — The World Health Organization declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency on Wednesday, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen ...