Private insurance companies in the U.S. aren’t required to cover the cost of the mpox vaccine, which costs $270 a dose.

The WHO declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years in August after a new variant of the ...

Kenya is among nine countries in Africa that have been allocated MPOX vaccine doses, following an MPOX surge in the continent ...

With the mpox vaccine supply constraints, countries will need to develop very targeted deployment plans, guided by local epidemiology," said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa. More ...

British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged ...

The World Health Organisation and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have committed to guiding the ...

African production of mpox vaccines could reduce reliance on wealthier countries But bureaucratic approvals and uncertain demand stymie progress ...

Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, drew global attention in 2022 during an outbreak that affected the U.S., Europe, Australia and many other countries. The virus comes in two distinct forms or "clades ...

Africa's main public health body said it is seeking assurances that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's administration will provide the funding and mpox vaccines promised by his predecessor.

These doses come from Canada, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the European Union (Austria ... This year, 19 countries in Africa have reported mpox, many of them newly affected by the viral disease. The ...

Four cases of the more infectious variant of mpox have been reported in the U.K., making it the first cluster of infections ...