A team of researchers traced the wild animal source of the mpox virus to the fire-footed rope squirrel Funisciurus pyrropus ...

ADDIS ABABA, April 11 (Xinhua) -- The number of mpox cases reported in Africa in the past three months has been more than half of the total reported in the whole 2024, the Africa Centers for ...

Foreign aid cuts could result in a major outbreak of mpox across the African continent and beyond, with virus control measures already disrupted, public health experts warn.

Kenya was among nine African countries listed in November last year for allocation of mpox vaccine doses following an increase of cases on the continent. The others were the Central African ...

According to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), mpox testing in the DRC has faltered, despite the thousands of suspected cases in the country. It says less than a ...

Spread of mpox is associated with close contact and until now the variant clade 1b cases in the UK have been in individuals with recent travel history to Africa and their household contacts. Common ...

He noted that the vaccines were secured through collaborative efforts between the Government of Kenya and its international partners, including Africa CDC, the World Health Organization (WHO ...

(MENAFN- Swissinfo) Switzerland has reported its first case of the new mpox variant ... infected individual was a traveller returning from Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated ...