Peter Obi. WHO, Africa CDC strengthen mpox vaccination in Nigeria, 16 others Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has urged medical students seeking ...

Kenya is among nine countries in Africa that have been allocated MPOX vaccine doses, following an MPOX surge in the continent ...

Private insurance companies in the U.S. aren’t required to cover the cost of the mpox vaccine, which costs $270 a dose.

Intensifying mpox outbreak as both subclade Ia and Ib strains show signs of sustained human-to-human transmission in Kinshasa ...

In an early sign that the mpox outbreak in Africa might be ebbing, some health officials report that case counts seem to be stabilizing in the Congo, the epicenter of the outbreak.

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The UK has seen cases of mpox since then, mainly caused by clade 2, a strain that spreads through close skin-to-skin contact ...

AP reports on the new U.K. cluster, noting that scientists say public risk remains low. Other global health news is on cigarettes in the U.K., a social media ban in Australia, the future of cancer ...

Compared with emergency department and primary care settings, clinics where sexual health assessment was routine had the highest quality of care indicators for mpox evaluation. Patients with mpox ...

Since the current outbreak of mpox clade I began in eastern DR Congo in 2023, there has been a rapid increase in cases, primarily in DR Congo, and spread of the monkeypox virus to other countries in ...

Four cases of the more infectious variant of mpox have been reported in the U.K., making it the first cluster of infections ...

The spread of mpox has slowed down slightly across Africa but the epidemic is not over, the African Union's health watchdog ...