Health officials said on Saturday they have confirmed the first US case of a new form of mpox that was first seen in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The person had travelled to eastern ...

The Health Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at a press briefing in Kinshasa without specifying the date for ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has struggled to launch an mpox vaccination campaign in the capital, Kinshasa, due to a ...

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

New genetic sequencing results have now confirmed novel clade 1b mpox virus in recent cases from Zambia and Zimbabwe, ...

KINSHASA, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the epicenter of the ongoing mpox epidemic, has seen a "downward trend" in weekly reported new cases over the past six weeks, ...

Russia has claimed that there is an increased interest from African and ex-Soviet countries in its mpox vaccine, Orthopoxvac ...

Mpox, also known as monkeypox, is an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus. It spreads through close contact with ...

Addis ABABA. - The African continent is still in the acute phase of the Mpox outbreak as the number of cases reported so far ...

WHO has allocated 899,000 mpox vaccine doses to nine African nations, prioritising those hit hardest by the latest outbreak.

The first reported human case of mpox was in 1970 in a nine-year-old boy in Zaire (today the Democratic Republic of Congo or DRC). This was during the drive to vaccinate people against smallpox.