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The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has announced a 58 per cent decline in mpox cases across the continent between epidemiological weeks 19 and 30 of 2025, signaling substantial progress in disease control efforts. Dr. Jean Kaseya, Director-General of the Africa CDC, made the disclosure during…
Spain will donate 500,000 Mpox vaccine doses to countries in central Africa suffering from a surge in cases, the government said Tuesday. The doses amount to 20 percent of Spain’s total mpox vaccine reserves, the health ministry said in a statement without specifying which nations in the region will receive…
Nigeria and several other countries that have been recently hit by the Monkey Pox (MPOX) outbreak, stand to benefit from a $135m funding plan by the World Health Organization (WHO). A statement by the organisation on Monday said the fund was necessary as it has launched a global Strategic Preparedness…
The DG said adding that there had been more than 87,000 cases of Mpox, with 140 deaths worldwide reported to the organisation from 111 different countries.
