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 ...

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

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

The worsening security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has forced many mpox patients to flee ...

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 ...

The monkeypox virus is causing concurrent outbreaks of mpox in Africa, with more and more frequent exportations outside the ...

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.

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 ...

Last August, WHO declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years after an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Clade lb began spreading in the African ...