The Health Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) said that the country will begin a new round of vaccination amid the mpox outbreak. DRC is also the epicentre of the ongoing mpox ...

(MENAFN) The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will begin a new round of mpox vaccinations to combat the ongoing epidemic, which has already caused over 1,100 deaths since the beginning of 2024.

The Access and Allocation Mechanism for Mpox ... of the Congo, with over 38,000 suspected cases and more than 1,000 deaths reported this year, it highlighted. It stressed that vaccination is ...

WHO declares global emergency as monkeypox spreads in Africa, calling for urgent aid Congo begins mpox vaccinations amid rising cases and deaths Mpox is a rare disease caused by infection with a ...

Nigeria, eight others get 899,000 Mpox vaccine The Access and Allocation ... the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global health emergency over a new strain of mpox that is ... the short term, with vaccination campaigns unlikely to begin until at least October.

Bavarian Nordic’s vaccine ... of Congo (DRC), the country at the epicentre of the fast-spreading outbreak declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as both a continental and global public health ...

Unlike the COVID-19 pandemic, there already exist vaccines that are effective against mpox and the viral illness ... in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was found to be carrying the ...

It comes after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency in August after an mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo ... for as vaccine programme begins ...