A health worker speaks to women about mpox prevention at a clinic in Munigi, eastern Congo. | Photo Credit: AP Congo will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States, the country’s health minister said Monday, days after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in Africa … Read more
The World Health Organization declared mpox a global public health emergency | Photo Credit: AP Sweden said on Thursday (August 15, 2024) it had confirmed a first case of mpox, a viral infection that spreads through close contact. Earlier on Thursday (August 15, 2024), the World Health Organization declared mpox a global public health emergency … Read more
Dr. Tresor Wakilongo, verifies the evolution of skin lesions on the ear of Innocent, suffering from mpox — an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus that sparks off a painful rash, enlarged lymph nodes and fever; at the treatment centre in Munigi, following mpox cases in Nyiragongo territory near Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic … Read more