Jun 14, 2024 · From 1 January to 30 May 2024, the Republic of Congo reported 19 confirmed and 10 probable mpox cases across four departments: Cuvette (14 cases), Likouala (two cases), Plateaux (two cases), and Pointe-Noire (one case).

1 day ago · 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 agency (WHO) warned on Monday.

Aug 26, 2024 · Children in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo are worst-affected by the current outbreak of mpox, which has been declared a public health emergency of international …

Sep 19, 2024 · Health authorities have struggled to contain outbreaks of mpox in Congo, a huge central African country where a myriad of existing problems makes stemming the spread particularly hard.

Aug 7, 2024 · The Republic of the Congo (ROC), which borders DRC to the west, declared a clade I mpox outbreak in April 2024, and there have been confirmed cases in the Central African Republic (CAR).

Jan 16, 2025 · Since January 1, 2024, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighboring countries in Central and Eastern Africa have reported more than 50,000 suspected mpox cases and 1,000 deaths. Of these, about 13,000 cases and more than 40 deaths have been confirmed through laboratory testing.

Nov 23, 2023 · Mpox is an infectious disease caused by monkeypox virus (MPXV), which is endemic in densely forested regions of West, Central and East Africa, particularly in the northern and central regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

An upsurge of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its spread to neighbouring countries was declared a public health emergency of international concern on 14 August 2024. Mpox is a viral disease caused by an orthopoxvirus.

KINSHASA/DAKAR, 16 August 2024 – Thousands of children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighbouring countries are at significant risk of contracting the mpox virus as cases of a new, more deadly, variant continue to surge, UNICEF warned today.

5 days ago · The monkeypox virus is causing concurrent outbreaks of mpox in Africa, with more and more frequent exportations outside the continent.1 Although community transmission has established itself in a number of African countries, DR Congo undoubtedly bears the highest global burden, and many exportations are linked to travel to DR Congo.2 Clade Ia zoonotic spillover had been the primary mode of ...