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 ...

Africa is no longer in the grip of a public health emergency over mpox though the viral infection "remains endemic in several settings," the head of region's disease monitoring centers said Saturday.

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 ...

At least 22 African countries have been affected by the epidemic since the beginning of 2024 with the total number of cases amounting to over 117,000 with 1,700 fatalities NAIROBI, April 11. /TASS/.

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 ...

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 ...

GAITHERSBURG, Md. and PARIS and ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Jan. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today Emergent BioSolutions (NYSE: EBS) announced a collaboration agreement with PANTHER to provide additional ...

Professor of Infection and Inequities, Centre for Immunobiology, Blizard Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London The global outbreak of mpox in 2022-23 affected ...

A patient infected with mpox shows lesions on his body at the treatment centre in Kamituga, South Kivu province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on September 20, 2024. [AFP)] The World ...

In a groundbreaking new study, a team of researchers from South Dakota State University—led by associate professor Saikat ...