There have been 46,794 confirmed and suspected cases in Africa this year through Nov. 3, including 1,081 deaths, the WHO said in a report issues on Monday. The most affected country is the Democratic ...

The World Health Organization will hold a meeting next week to decide if mpox remains a global health crisis. The disease, prevalent in Africa, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has ...

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Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has urged medical students seeking greener pastures overseas after their graduation to do so. Peter Obi. WHO, ...

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

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The distribution plan prioritizes the most affected regions, with the Democratic Republic of Congo receiving 85 percent of ...

While the study did not meet its primary endpoint of a statistically significant improvement in time to lesion resolution within 28 days for mpox patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo who were ...

“Mpox is very infectious in households with close contact ... “In recent weeks, limited vaccination has begun in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda,” the WHO said in its announcement.

Since the current outbreak of mpox clade I began in eastern DR Congo in 2023, there has been a rapid increase in cases, primarily in DR Congo, and spread of the monkeypox virus to other countries in ...

The spread of mpox has slowed down slightly across Africa but the epidemic is not over, the African Union's health watchdog ...