Mpox

Mpox scars are seen on the hands of Bintu Biringingwa, at the Miti Murhesa hospital, some 25kms from Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga)

Congo faces setback in mpox response after Rwanda-backed rebels advance in the east

Six weeks after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the eastern Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu, the region is facing a setback in its fight against the mpox outbreak.

Employees work in Moldiag, a biotechnology startup, while producing mpox tests, in Tamesna, Morocco, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Morocco produces Africa’s first mpox tests as the continent tries to rely less on imports

FILE - 2 year old Emile Miango, who has mpox, lies in a hospital, in Kamituga, South Kivu province, Sept. 4, 2024, which is the epicenter of the world's latest outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, file)

UN authorizes first mpox vaccine for children in an attempt to control Congo outbreak

FILE - This colorized electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2024 shows Mpox virus particles, orange, found within infected cells, green. (NIAID via AP, File)

US health officials report 1st case of new form of mpox in a traveler

Emile Miango, de 2 años de edad y paciente con viruela símica, el 4 de septiembre de 2024, en un hospital en Kamituga, Congo. (AP Foto/Moses Sawasawa, Archivo)

WHO says mpox cases in Congo’s epicenter where the new variant was detected may be ‘plateauing’

DR Congo battles mpox epidemic amid conflict in the east

Nurses are administering medicine to Mpox patients at a tent in Kabare, Democratic Republic of the Congo, as the area grapples with an outbreak of the disease. The medical staff are carrying out their work despite the conflict that has been raging in the east of the country since the beginning of the year.

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A gold mining town in Congo has become an mpox hot spot as a new strain spreads, AP explains

Patients at South Kivu Province clinic in eastern Congo desperately waiting on mpox vaccine

In Congo, after mpox, families face stigmatization

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Sierra Leone declares emergency after confirming 2nd mpox case in 4 days

FILE - This colorized electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2024 shows Mpox virus particles, green, found within infected cultured cells, blue. The virus particles are in various stages of maturity, which accounts for differences in shape. (NIAID via AP, File)

UK identifies 4 cases of new mpox variant, the first cluster outside Africa

FILE - 2 year old Emile Miango, who has mpox, lies in a hospital, in Kamituga, South Kivu province, Sept. 4, 2024, which is the epicenter of the world's latest outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, file)

Mpox cases in Congo may be stabilizing. Experts say more vaccines are needed to stamp out virus

Germany’s disease control center reports 1st case of new mpox variant

A man receives a vaccination against mpox, at the General hospital, in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Africa’s mpox deaths surpass 1,000 as health officials urge international support

FILE - A health worker attends to a mpox patient, at a treatment centre in Munigi, eastern Congo, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

Congo finally begins mpox vaccinations in a drive to slow outbreaks

Sifa Kunguja, a 40-year-old sex worker, sits home after recovering from mpox, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Kamituga, eastern Congo. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Sex workers find themselves at the center of Congo’s mpox outbreak

Atumisi Anaclet treats a sex worker with mpox on Sept. 4, 2024, in a hospital in Kamituga, in eastern Congo's South Kivu province, which is the epicenter of the world's latest outbreak of the disease. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Why is Congo struggling to contain mpox?

Emile Miango, 2, who has mpox, lies in the hospital, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Kamituga, South Kivu province, which is the epicenter of the world’s latest outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

A gold mining town in Congo has become an mpox hot spot as a new strain spreads

FILE - Family nurse practitioner Carol Ramsubhag-Carela prepares a syringe with the Mpox vaccine before inoculating a patient at a vaccinations site on Aug. 30, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)

Global vaccine alliance GAVI to buy 500,000 doses of mpox vaccine

FILE - A health worker attends to an mpox patient, at a treatment center in Munigi, eastern Congo, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

WHO grants first mpox vaccine approval to ramp up response to disease in Africa

FILE - A health worker attends to an mpox patient, at a treatment center in Munigi, eastern Congo, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

Mpox deaths rise by 107 in a week as Africa CDC calls the toll unacceptable

FILE - A health worker attends to a mpox patient, at a treatment centre in Munigi, eastern Congo, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

First doses of mpox vaccine from the United States arrive in Congo

FILE - A health worker attends to a mpox patient, at a treatment centre in Munigi, eastern Congo, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

WHO and Africa CDC launch a response plan to the mpox outbreak

A health worker carries medication to be giving to a man suffering for mpox at the Kamituga General Hospital in South Kivu Congo, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

The first 100,000 doses of mpox vaccine reach Congo. But it’s a fraction of what is needed

Un trabajador de salud revisa a un paciente con viruela símica en un centro de atención en Munigi, en el este de la República Democrática del Congo, el lunes 19 de agosto de 2024. (AP Foto/Moses Sawasawa)

Mpox outbreaks in Africa could be ended in 6 months, WHO chief says

Christophe Chavilinga, suffering from mpox, waits for treatment at a clinic in Munigi, Congo, Aug. 16, 2024. The World Health Organization declared the ongoing outbreaks of mpox in Congo and elsewhere in Africa to be a global emergency. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Africa has almost 4,000 new mpox cases in a week, but the wait for vaccines continues

People sit at the Don Bosco refugee camp as Red Cross officials create awareness around mpox in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Africa’s mpox outbreaks result from neglect and world’s inability to stop epidemics, experts say

Red Cross officials create awareness around mpox in the Don Bosco refugee camp in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

WHO launches plan to stanch mpox transmission and says the virus can be stopped

Christophe Chavilinga, 90, suffering from mpox, waits for treatment at a clinic in Munigi, eastern Congo, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

A photographer captures the mpox health crisis in Africa in a closeup

A health worker attends to a mpox patient, at a treatment centre in Munigi, eastern Congo, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. Congo will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States, the country's health minister said Monday, days after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in Africa a global emergency. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Congo reports more than 1,000 new mpox cases in a week. African authorities ask for vaccines

Children suffering from mpox wait for a treatment at a clinic in Munigi, eastern Congo, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. Congo will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States, the country's health minister said Monday, days after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in Africa a global emergency. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Congo says it will receive its first mpox vaccines next week to address new global emergency

Sarah Bagheni, in the Bulengo refugee camp in Goma, Congo, suspects she may be infected with Mpox after the World Health Organization had declared Thursday, Aug, 15, 2024, the increasing spread of mpox in Africa a global health emergency, warning the virus might ultimately spill across international borders. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Congo’s humanitarian crisis helped mpox spiral again into a global health emergency

FILE - This undated image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue), cultured in the laboratory that was captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Md. (NIAID via AP, File)

Now that mpox is a global health emergency, will it trigger another pandemic?

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa, center, inspects an honor guard from a military truck during the 44th Zimbabwe Defence Forces Day comemorations at Rufaro Stadium in Harare, Tuesday Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

Southern African leaders meet amid mpox concerns and a political crackdown in summit host Zimbabwe

State epidemiologist Magnus Gisslén speaks during a press conference with the Minister of Social Affairs to inform about the situation regarding mpox, in Stockholm, Sweden, Thursday Aug. 15, 2024. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP)

Sweden reports 1st case of more infectious form of mpox first identified in Congo

This photo supplied by MSF (Doctors Without Borders) dated May 31, 2023, shows health workers educating children on the symptoms of the mpox disease in Goma, Congo. (Augustin Mudiayi/Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières via AP)

WHO declares mpox outbreaks in Africa a global health emergency as a new form of the virus spreads

Medical staff talk to each other at the general hospital in Goma, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024 after the World Health Organization declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

A new global health emergency: What is mpox, where are the outbreaks and will the virus spread?

FILE - This image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue), cultured in the laboratory that was captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Md. Kenya and the Central African Republic declared new outbreaks of mpox Wednesday, July 31, 2024, as Africa's health officials are racing to contain the spread of the disease in a region lacking vaccines. (NIAID via AP, File)

UN health agency convening experts to determine if the mpox outbreak in Africa is a global emergency

FILE - Vials of single doses of the Jynneos vaccine for monkeypox are seen from a cooler at a vaccinations site on Aug. 29, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. African health officials said mpox cases have spiked by 160% in the last year, warning the risk of further spread is high given the lack of effective treatments or vaccines on the continent. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)

Mpox cases have surged by 160% in Africa so far this year, but few treatments and vaccines available