The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has initiated contact tracing efforts to identify individuals who might have come into contact ...

A study conducted in UK hospitals found mpox virus (MPXV) clade 1b DNA in 73% of surface samples and 7% of air samples from ...

Declared a public health emergency, Uganda has recorded 2,247 confirmed cases, with Kampala reporting 347 and Nakasongola 84 ...

Togo has confirmed a case of mpox, the first one in the country, the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene announced in a ...

Ghana has confirmed a third case of Mpox following the latest update from the Ghana Health Service (GHS). Sophia Akuffo’s ...

In recent years, the world has seen a surge in new and deadly infectious diseases, posing a major threat to global health.

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed two cases of Mpox in the Accra Metropolitan Area of the Greater Accra Region. In a press release issued in Accra on Thursday, the GHS said it was working ...

MPox is endemic in DRC, and has continued to cause large numbers of cases in the WHO African Region. In April, 2025, the WHO has restated that MPox continues to be a Public Health Emergency of ...

Cases continue to climb sharply in Sierra Leone, and the head of the Africa Centre for Disease Control (Africa CDC) said the ...

The number of cases of mpox registered in Sierra Leone since the beginning of the year has hit 2,045, with 11 fatalities, ...

The recent global monkeypox (mpox) outbreak, with a new and aggressive variant, has underscored the dire need for safe, broadly effective, and accessible vaccines. The LC16m8 vaccine, an attenuated ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | Scientists in Uganda are launching studies to evaluate the effectiveness of local herbal ...