Kaseya said the mpox vaccine has been well received in countries that have deployed the vaccine, including in the DRC. He ...

Our reporter went to Congo, where the mpox epidemic has reached the teeming capital, infecting children and their mothers, who sell sex to survive. An mpox patient receiving care in a health ...

So far, about 50,000 people in Congo have been immunized against mpox with the vaccine made by Bavarian Nordic. WHO said Japan had announced it would donate about 3 million doses of the shot made ...

Congo has requested the vaccines from the company. In response to the spread of mpox, WHO declared a state of emergency on Aug. 14. Soon after that, Keizo Takemi, health minister at that time ...

This is one of the highest weekly jumps this year and shows mpox “is still moving,” Kaseya said. In some parts of Congo, authorities are moving from twice-weekly vaccination to offering mpox ...

Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa) The 2022 outbreak of mpox was largely shut down with the use of vaccines and treatments. The World Health ...

Vaccines also helped people at risk protect themselves in many countries. But mpox has been a public health problem in parts of Africa for decades. The current outbreak is Congo’s worst ever.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ... situation, vaccines are being rolled out slowly, with only 56,000 people vaccinated despite over a million doses being available. Is Mpox caused by ...

Congo launches its first mpox vaccination campaign Africacategory· October 5, 2024 At least 78 people drowned when a boat carrying 278 passengers capsized in Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic ...