BY REUTERS Spain will donate 500,000 doses of the mpox vaccine, or 20% of its stockpile, to combat an outbreak of the disease in Africa, the Health Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. It added that the country had urged the European Commission to propose that all EU member […]
BY REUTERS The first 10,000 mpox vaccines are finally due to arrive next week in Africa, where a dangerous new strain of the virus – which has afflicted people there for decades – has caused global alarm. The slow arrival of the shots – which have already been made available […]
BY REUTERS Uganda’s Ministry of Health (MoH) has confirmed two more mpox virus infections, bringing the number of cases in the east African country to four, according to the health ministry. The two new patients were infected with the clade 1b strain of the virus, health ministry director-general of health […]
By Scovin Iceta Health officials in Moyo District have confirmed receiving a case of suspected Mpox disease. Moyo district Health Officer, Dr Franklin Iddi, says blood samples have been collected from the suspected patient and will be taken for testing soon. “For sure we have registered one suspected case where […]
BY REUTERS The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on Friday raised its risk level for Mpox, a day after global health officials confirmed the first infection with a new strain of the virus outside Africa, in Sweden. The EU public health body’s head said there will be more […]
