The global eradication of smallpox more than 40 years ago was one of the greatest achievements in public health history, vanquishing a cause of death, blindness and disfigurement that had plagued ...
The African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has warned that the deteriorating humanitarian situation ...
Long known as a virus confined to rural areas, mpox has reached Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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 ...
Background Mpox emerged as a significant global public health concern during the 2022–2023 outbreak, impacting populations in ...
Mpox, previously known as monkeypox, is a rare infection most commonly found in parts of central and east Africa. The seventh ...
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 ...
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.
It is the strain that has spread rapidly across 21 African countries during the current epidemic in east and central Africa. This dual transmission makes the fight against mpox even more ...
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's second case of mpox in 2025 has been detected at the Bacha Khan International Airport, bringing the ...