The child had not been vaccinated against the measles. The outbreak has so far infected at least 124 people — mostly children — in rural West ... countries in North Africa, the Middle East ...

"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 ...

LONDON (AP) — The rising mpox outbreaks in Africa that triggered ... virus emerging in countries with few resources to stop outbreaks. Mpox, also known as monkeypox, had been spreading mostly ...

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 ...