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

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

Evidence about the virus and the spread of disease indicates animals that may be a reservoir of the mpox virus. In the DRC, 43 species of animals, including primates, have shown positive evidence of ...

KINSHASA, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the epicenter of the ongoing mpox epidemic, will kick off a new round of vaccination, Health Minister Roger Kamba said late ...

The vaccine also lacks international regulatory approval. The WHO's global emergency declaration for mpox, originating in the ...

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

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

Congo's mpox vaccination campaign in Kinshasa is delaying due to vaccine shortages, with about 162,000 doses needed to ...

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

A brief history The first reported human case of mpox was in 1970 in a nine-year-old boy in Zaire (today the Democratic ...

A staff team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by Calixte Ahokpossi, IMF Mission Chief for the DRC, visited Kinshasa during October 31–November 13, to hold discussions on a new economic ...

End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed ...