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.

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 ...

The alarm has been raised over the mutation of a new strain of mpox. The variant is said to be "highly transmissible" and is currently rampaging through the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Africa CDC and WHO have updated their joint Continental Response Plan for the mpox ... additional vaccine supplies. Diagnostic testing capacity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has grown ...

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 ...

A health worker gets her temperature checked during the launch of the mpox vaccination campaign at ... outbreak of illness in western DR Congo, the World Health Organization said Friday.