"We could have very easily prevented the 2022 multi-country outbreak if countries in Africa ... epidemics until they get exported to the Global North." Because the virus involved in the 2022 ...

For decades after the identification of mpox in humans in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1970, the disease was largely confined to the rural areas of Central and West Africa and thus ...

Mpox, also known as monkeypox, had been spreading mostly undetected for years in Africa before the disease prompted the 2022 outbreak in more than 70 countries, Ogoina said at a virtual news ...

Overshadowed by wars in Ukraine, the Middle ... is via West African coastal nations to Spain's Canary Islands. IOM data shows the number of migrants arriving in Europe from Sahel countries ...