Africa CDC and WHO have updated their joint Continental Response Plan for the mpox emergency as the disease continues to affect new areas.

Insufficient research on mpox hinders effective control strategies, emphasizing the need to understand its transmission and ...

Health experts warn foreign aid cuts could result in a major outbreak of mpox across Africa and beyond, with virus control measures disrupted.

Since eradicating smallpox, only rare outbreaks of related viruses appeared. But today, mpox, once confined mainly to rural parts of Africa, is spreading globally, and the reasons behind this ...

Mpox is a viral infection caused by a virus that belongs to the same family as smallpox. The virus can cause a painful rash, fever, and swollen glands and, in some cases, lead to more serious ...

And studies published in the past year 2, 3 have demonstrated that African outbreaks of mpox, the disease caused by the virus, have been fuelled by several transmission events from animals to humans.

Trindade said that the ministry will create an Emergency Operation Committee to adopt measures to tackle the spread of mpox. “We're going to set up an Emergency Operation Committee, involving ...

TASS/. The number of mpox cases registered in Africa over the past three months has been more than half of the total reported in all of 2024, Yap Boum, deputy incident manager for mpox at the ...