mpox

By Djaffar Al KatantyKAVUMU, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Dozens of feverish patients lay on thin mattresses on the floor of a makeshift mpox isolation ward in east Democratic Republic of Congo, as overstretched hospital…

None of the African countries affected by the outbreak of a new variant of mpox have received any of the promised vaccine, pushing back a rollout that had been planned for last week.The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been at…

Businesswoman Mary Malisi crosses the border regularly for work. The Kenyan hotel owner buys grain from markets in Uganda for use in her establishment back home in the border town of Malaba. On both sides of the Kenya-Uganda border,…

With more than 16,000 cases recorded so far this year, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is at the centre of the mpox epidemic that led the World Health…

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has already said that it needs 10 million vaccines to control the outbreak. EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides on Thursday asked EU countries to tell her how many mpox jabs…

Topline Thailand on Thursday confirmed an mpox case reported earlier this week was the new clade Ib strain, marking only the second time the deadlier variant has been identified outside of Africa as governments worldwide intensify…

Earlier this week, a World Health Organization (WHO) official stressed that the mpox virus is not the new COVID-19, because we know how to handle its spread, but the current outbreak is steadily…

Topline Shares of Danish biotech Bavarian Nordic surged on Thursday after the company reported strong earnings and a large order of its mpox vaccine, extending its gains this year as nations mobilize to combat an escalating outbreak of…

As a global emergency is declared over mpox, our health and science correspondent assesses the threat. Read More

Officials are testing if the patient has the new version of the virus. If confirmed, it would be Thailand’s first case involving Clade Ib mpox. Read More