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A case of Mpox disease has been reported for the first time this year in the Bia region of Ghana’s North West Province, according to the Ghana Health Service. “The patient is 15 years old and that his prognosis is not life-threatening,” reports said. “The country has 230 suspected cases …

According to the World Health Organization, nearly 30,000 suspected cases of mpox have been reported in Africa since the beginning of the year. According to the U.N. health body, a majority were in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been grappling with an uptick in cases, along with its …

Nigerian authorities have announced that they have received the first batch of vaccine against the mpox virus that is wreaking havoc on the continent. The country began the process to secure the vaccines well before it was declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) earlier this …

In Uganda, two new infections with the mpox virus have been confirmed, bringing the total number of cases in the East African country to four, according to the Ministry of Health. The two new patients were infected with the clade 1b strain of the virus, Health Ministry Director General of …

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) hope to receive first doses of mpox vaccine by next week, following promises from the United States and Japan to help the country fight the outbreak, local media reported. The World Health Organization last week declared mpox a global public …

China announced on Friday, August 16, that it was strengthening its controls on people and goods likely to have been in contact with mpox (or “monkey pox”), after the World Health Organization (WHO) issued an alert about the disease. Mpox, formerly known as monkey pox, is a viral disease that …

The Africa Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has announced it is set to declare a health emergency as monkeypox cases surge across the continent. Dr Jean Kaseya, Director General of the Africa Centre for Disease Control (CDC), made the announcement during a webinar on Thursday on the Mpox outbreak situation …

The monkeypox virus variant has hit displacement camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo, affecting children, local media reported. Local doctors say they have seen 130 suspected mpox cases, almost entirely in children and adolescents, in the last four weeks at a nearby facility that treats displaced people from the …