Mpox vaccines

Mpox vaccines that young children can use will arrive from Japan next week, a crucial step in reducing the spread of the disease that has killed about 1,200 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year. Children in the central…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said that Nigeria and eight other African countries benefited from an initial 899,000 vaccine doses allocated to countries hard-hit by the current mpox surge. The allocated vaccines came from European…

Mpox vaccines are expected to arrive in Africa in the coming days, after the region’s main health-advisory body last week declared an outbreak of the disease a continent-wide public-health emergency. “The vaccine will be available very…