Congo, with about 30,000 suspected mpox cases and 859 deaths, accounts for more than 80 per cent of all the cases and 99 per cent of all the deaths reported in Africa this year.

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Additionally, last week, the WHO triggered the process to begin allowing mpox vaccines to go ... "In the Democratic Republic of Congo, their access to the impact vaccine is limited," he said.

The World Health Organization (WHO) chief announced on Wednesday that the UN agency has partially resumed mpox vaccinations in Goma, an eastern city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Earlier this week, the first batch of mpox vaccines arrived in the capital of Congo, the center of the outbreak. The 100,000 doses of the JYNNEOS vaccine, manufactured by the Danish company ...

Vaccines also helped people at risk protect themselves in many countries. But mpox has been a public health problem in parts of Africa for decades. The current outbreak, Congo’s worst ever ...

Congolese authorities said they have asked for 4 million doses of mpox vaccine, said Cris Kacita Osako, coordinator of Congo’s Monkeypox Response Committee. Osako said those would mostly be used ...

But today, mpox, once confined mainly ... dramatically in the Democratic Republic of Congo, often infecting children—raising fears the virus could begin spreading easily among younger populations.

Health officials are advising people at higher risk of mpox infection to consider being vaccinated with two doses of the JYNNEOS vaccine, which is available statewide. Laboratory testing of the ...

ANALYSIS· November 26, 2024 New mpox vaccines for Congo's children held up by old problem Adults started getting vaccinations against mpox in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital this week.