The trial, set to take place in Kenya, will focus on assessing the vaccine's safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity.

Congo's mpox vaccination campaign is a key step in efforts to contain the outbreak at its epicentre

The WHO declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years in August after a new type of the virus spread from the Democr...

Gavi, an international public-private alliance which co-funds vaccine purchases for low-income countries, said on Sept. 18 it would buy 500,000 doses...

Four of the five Kenyans confirmed to have contracted Mpox so far are truck drivers, with the fifth being a trucker’s spouse.

Congo's health minister, Samuel Roger Kamba Mulamba, told reporters the newly arrived vaccine had already proved its worth in the United States and wo...

The outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and the World Health Organisati...

Depending on the production capacity of manufacturers, agreements for up to 12 million doses through 2025 can be made, according to the statement.

Some 230,000 mpox doses are immediately available to be dispatched, added Tim Nguyen, unit head of Global Infectious Hazards Preparedness at the World...

Emergent last week said it would donate 50,000 doses of its smallpox vaccine to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other impacted countries of B...

Since July 2024, cases of Clade Ib, linked (in the way it emerged and spread) to the outbreak in the eastern provinces of DRC, have been detected in f...

The Africa CDC has said 10 million doses may be needed across the continent.

Kenya has already confirmed its second Mpox case in a truck driver travelling from Uganda at the Malaba border, Health PS Mary Muthoni told the media.

Earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the mpox outbreak in Africa a public health emergency of international concern.

The ministry has also intensified surveillance at sea, land, and air entry points to prevent the spread of Mpox.

Authorities are also monitoring 43 people in the country who may come into contact with the patient.

During the first week of August alone, the Democratic Republic of Congo reported nearly 2,400 suspected infections and 56 deaths.

This is the second time in two years the organisation has issued an alert for the disease.

According to the report, out of 90,410 reported Mpox cases, 87,189 involve men. Notably, 96 per cent of these infections were transmitted through sexu...

While Mpox can be transmitted from animals to humans, a recently identified lethal strain is now spreading from person to person.