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

Three genera of African rodent, Graphiurus (African dormice), Cricetomys (giant pouched rat) and Funisciurus (African striped ...

As of 3 November, cases among children in the DRC had increased by over 130% from about 11,300 suspected cases to 25,600, while in Burundi, mpox has risen from 89 confirmed child cases to around 1,100 ...

Several African and ex-Soviet countries have expressed interest in buying Russia's vaccine against smallpox and mpox viruses, ...

The DR Congo's capital Kinshasa needs more than double the mpox vaccines it currently has to immunise all the city's at-risk ...

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, ...

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

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.