Kaseya is director general of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He's talking about mpox, a virus that causes painful blisters and can be fatal. For much of the world ...

The mpox outbreak is still a public health emergency, the World Health Organization said yesterday. The WHO, which first declared the emergency in August last year, said its decision was based on ...

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) is hereby transmitting the report of the third meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee (Committee) ...

The alarm has been raised over the mutation of a new strain of mpox. The variant is said to be "highly transmissible" and is currently rampaging through the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

MITI MURHESA, Congo — Hospitals across eastern Congo that were once at the forefront of the country’s response to the mpox outbreak are facing a setback in detecting the disease and offering ...

Mpox remains an international public health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Feb 27 (2025). This was after the international health agency decided the epidemic still merits ...