The current phase of fighting erupted in late January in the mineral-rich eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

"In the context of the outbreak in parts of Africa, we expect to see the occasional imported case of clade Ib mpox in the UK, ...

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 ...

The NHS have opened 12 new mpox vaccination sites to help protect those at an increased risk of getting the infection. Every region in England will now be able to offer the vaccine, after it ...

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.

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 ...