The Frederick biotechnology company BioFactura has announced $7.8 million in new contract activations to study a treatment for a potential smallpox outbreak. The company has gotten contract option ...

The African CDC is seeking assurance that President-elect Trump will uphold previous U.S. commitments to funding and vaccine ...

The African continent has seen an increase of mpox cases of 545% in 2024, compared to last year, according to data released ...

While mpox cases continue to spread on the African continent, donors have been slow to translate their promises into money ...

The CDC recently began gearing up to perform the reanalysis and ... of a statistically significant improvement in time to lesion resolution within 28 days for mpox patients in the Democratic Republic ...

The Access and Allocation Mechanism (AAM) for mpox has allocated an initial 899 000 vaccine doses for 9 countries across the ...

The outbreak of mpox, particularly the surge of the viral strain clade Ib ... concern by WHO and a public health emergency of continental security by Africa CDC in mid-August. This year, 19 countries ...

Since the current outbreak of mpox clade I began in eastern DR Congo in 2023, there has been a rapid increase in cases, primarily in DR Congo, and spread of the monkeypox virus to other countries in ...

Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, and Mozambique have begun locally-led HIV vaccine research and development. This was disclosed at a press briefing in Abuja, on ...

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

The spread of mpox has slowed down slightly across Africa but the epidemic is not over, the African Union's health watchdog ...

Africa’s primary public health body stated that it is requesting confirmation that US President-elect Donald Trump’s ...