The Access and Allocation Mechanism (AAM) for mpox has allocated an initial 899 000 vaccine doses for 9 countries across the African region that are hit hard by the current mpox surge.

An initial 899,000 vaccine doses have been allocated for 9 countries across Africa that have been hit hard by the current mpox surge, the WHO and other health organisations said on Wednesday.

The Democratic Republic of Congo - reporting four out of every five confirmed cases in Africa this year - will take 85% of the nearly 900,000 doses allocated ...

British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged ...

Nsanzimana made the announcement while addressing a special online media briefing Thursday on the multi-country mpox outbreak in Africa and the Marburg virus disease outbreak in Rwanda alongside ...

Four cases of the more infectious variant of mpox have been reported in the UK, making it the first cluster of infections that have surfaced outside of Africa.

Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, drew global attention in 2022 during an outbreak that affected the U.S., Europe, Australia and many other countries. The virus comes in two distinct forms or "clades ...

Four cases of the more infectious variant of mpox have been reported in the U.K., making it the first cluster of infections ...

Emergent BioSolutions, one of only three companies with a vaccine for mpox, has agreed to donate ... with neighbouring countries Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda. The WHO's decision shortly ...

The UK has reported its first cluster of a new, more infectious mpox variant outside Africa with four cases identified.

In September it became the first mpox vaccine to be granted "prequalification ... "While most suspected cases in Burundi, Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda have been confirmed or ruled out by testing ...