Mpox surged in parts of East, West and Central Africa in 2024, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare it a public health emergency of international concern in August.

LONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The mpox outbreak is still a public health emergency, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. The WHO, which first declared the emergency in August last year ...

Mpox: Most of the focus in 2024 was on the subvariant clade Ib, which authorities only identified late in 2023, but has killed hundreds of children in eastern Congo.

In August, the World Health Organization declared mpox a “public health emergency of international concern.” To date, there have been more than 100,000 documented cases across 123 countries ...

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Mpox outbreak is an international health emergency, WHO declares The declaration is "the highest level of alarm under international health law." Beth Mole – Aug 14, 2024 5:36 pm | 144 ...

Throughout Congo and the rest of Africa, it’s society’s most vulnerable who bear the brunt of the mpox outbreak.

An Oct. 12 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a screenshot of a headline linking mpox, the disease formerly known as monkeypox, to COVID-19 vaccines. "WHO admits Monkeypox is 'Side ...

Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, is driving an ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighbouring countries.Surging cases are partly caused by a new variant that is ...

Traditionally mpox spreads mainly via direct contact with infected animals, but in the 2022 outbreak, the virus was seen to be transmitting from person-to-person through sexual contact.

More than 17,000 people in Africa have been infected with mpox, a disease that is closely related to smallpox. Mpox has killed nearly 600 people on the continent, or about 4 percent of those infected.

Shares in Bavarian Nordic surged after the Danish Mpox vaccine maker received a new order and reported earnings that beat expectations. In morning trade shares were 11% higher at 275 Danish ...