Pregnant women and infants are at risk should they contract mpox but there are no approved vaccines for this population.

An initial 899,000 vaccine doses have been allocated for nine countries across Africa that have been hit hard by the current mpox surge, the WHO and other health organizations say.

(Reuters) - An initial 899,000 vaccine doses have been allocated for 9 countries across Africa that have been hit hard by the ...

One of the World Health Organization’s most important jobs is managing viral outbreaks. The rapid spread of mpox, a disease related to smallpox, is a reminder of its shortcomings. The WHO has ...

Last week African countries reported 2,532 new mpox cases, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Burundi, ...

"What we need is a public health approach where we immunize populations at scale." Drugmaker Bavarian Nordic, which makes the ...

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated Congo needs at least 3 million mpox vaccines to stop the ...

Cases have also been diagnosed in Thailand, Sweden and Germany. In mid-September, Britain purchased more than 150,000 doses ...

Drugmaker Bavarian Nordic, which makes the most widely used mpox vaccine, said it would sell shots destined for Africa at the lowest price possible. The advocacy group Public Citizen published an ...