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

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

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)

Rwanda reports 8 deaths linked to Ebola-like Marburg virus days after it declared an outbreak

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2014 photo, a medical worker from the Infection Prevention and Control unit wearing full protective equipment carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into contact in Uganda with a carrier of the Marburg Virus, at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

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

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)

Vaccinations against mpox in Congo will begin next month, authorities say

FILE- Mpox vaccine MVA-BN vaccine, manufactured by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic, are offloaded from a plane in Kinshasa, Congo, Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi, File)

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

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

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)

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

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)

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

Women walk in the Bulengo refugee camp in Goma, Congo, 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)

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

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)