The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency of international concern in August 2024, a day after ...

The NHS have opened 12 new mpox vaccination sites to help protect those at an increased risk of getting the infection. Every ...

Hundreds of wounded people have poured into overcrowded hospitals in Goma after the M23 rebels say they captured the major ...

The UK Health Security Agency (HSA) today reported another clade 1b mpox case, marking the country's ninth since October 2024 ...

The worsening security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has forced many mpox patients to flee treatment centres, increasing the risk of transmission, the UN health ...

A reporter made a long journey, much of it spent fighting through mud on a motorbike, to reach the epicenter of a viral outbreak in Africa.

Fighting between Rwanda-backed rebels and the Congolese army has placed millions of people at high risk of death from the ...

For decades after the identification of mpox in humans in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1970, the disease was largely confined to the rural areas of Central and West Africa and thus ...

Analysis - Walking through the crowded streets of the Pakadjuma neighbourhood in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, I am struck by the vibrant atmosphere around me.

The World Health Organization reports that over 2,000 people have been wounded and 45 have died due to fighting in Congo's Goma region. The clashes have heightened the risk of spreading diseases such ...

Japan has sent the Democratic Republic of the Congo 50,000 doses of a vaccine against mpox, previously known as monkeypox.

For the second time in 2 years, an ongoing mpox outbreak has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by WHO.1 Following the global surge of clade IIb mpox in 2022, African ...