Clade I virus caused 14,626 mpox cases and 654 deaths in 2023 ... The vaccine—called Jynneos in the US and Imvanex in Europe—has not been made or sold in Africa so far. And at US$100 per dose (£76), ...

Monkeypox, caused by the monkeypox virus—a close cousin of smallpox—has spread rapidly worldwide. From 2022 to 2025, more ...

A study reveals that Africa's low rates of Zika virus outbreaks may be due to a surprising factor: the genetic makeup of local mosquito populations. Research by scientists at the High Meadows ...

Officials are also seeing promising trends in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where conflict in some of the ...

A hospital is desperately trying to trace patients and staff who came into contact with a person infected with mpox after they showed up in A&E. Health chiefs at Addenrbooke's Hospital in Cambridge ...

More than 15,000 people in Africa have died of Ebola in the past 50 years. Uganda declared the end of an Ebola virus outbreak Saturday, which has killed at least two people in the east African ...

As outbreaks persist, strategy focuses on controlling outbreaks, while expanding vaccination ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | Africa CDC ...

A team of scientists has uncovered the remarkable potential of a human antibody, mAb 3A6, in fighting Ebola virus infections.

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) commends the Republic of Uganda for officially declaring the end of its eighth outbreak of Sudan Ebola Virus Disease (SVD).

For many years, only sporadic OPXV zoonosis cases have been documented from mpox (MPXV) in Africa, cowpox virus in North Europe, Akhmeta virus in West Asia, Alaskapox virus in North America ...

HIV AIDS in animals: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection was first identified in Central Africa. Here, the virus initially spread among chimpanzees. While chimpanzees are the only animals ...