Slumped on the ground over a mound of dirt, Divine Wisoba pulled weeds from her daughter’s grave. The 1-month-old died from mpox in eastern Congo in August, but Wisoba, 21, was too traumatized to ...

A new strain of the mpox-causing monkeypox virus spreading in central Africa is the latest scourge to set off a global health ...

Unlike the millions of dollars that poured into Congo for Ebola and COVID aid, the response to mpox has been sluggish, many ...

Health officials have zeroed in on Kamituga, a remote yet bustling gold mining town of some 300,000 people that attracts ...

The UN Children's Fund, UNICEF, issued an urgent appeal on Friday for nearly $59 million to support efforts to halt the rapid ...

The resurgence of mpox during 2024 has been declared a continental emergency by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and a Public Health Emergency of International ...

UNICEF and partners are scaling up the emergency response in the DRC, Burundi and other countries in Africa, but more donor ...

Several hundred high-risk individuals were inoculated in Rwanda. Meanwhile, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention warned that the outbreak in Africa is still not under control, with ...

Within one week, 2,912 new cases were documented compared to the previous week, with Morocco reporting its first case, ...

It is possible to end the mpox outbreak in Burundi within weeks, a U.N. health official said on Friday, but progress in ...

With the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention “alarmed” by the speed of spread of the new Mpox strain, public ...

Mpox — which causes mostly mild symptoms like fever and body aches, but can trigger serious cases with prominent blisters on the face, hands, chest and genitals — had been spreading mostly undetected ...