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Mpox

September 2024

  • Three men shake hands in front of a loading pallet piled with boxes.

    DRC receives first donation of 100,000 mpox vaccines to contain outbreak

    Jab not yet approved for children, who make up most cases, while officials warn millions more doses will be required
  • Patient with baby and doctor at clinic in Nigeria.

    The Guardian view on a global health crisis: living longer may not mean living healthier

    Editorial: Chronic diseases disproportionately affect low- and middle-income countries. Richer nations need to step up to help reduce their toll
  • A doctor in a blue uniform and mask speaking with patients outside a treatment centreepicentre of the epidemic that led the World Health Organisation (WHO) to trigger its highest level of alert at the international level on Wednesday. The province of South Kivu records around 350 new cases per week, according to Dr Justin Bengehya, epidemiologist at the provincial health division of South Kivu. Goma, capital of the province of North Kivu, almost surrounded by an armed rebellion and where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are crammed into makeshift camps, fears a large-scale spread due to promiscuity. (Photo by GUERCHOM NDEBO / AFP) (Photo by GUERCHOM NDEBO/AFP via Getty Images)

    African nations hit by mpox still waiting for vaccines – despite promises by the west

    Last week’s planned rollout of doses faces further delays as campaigners complain of greed and inequality

August 2024

  • Gordon Brown

    Another worldwide alert – mpox is spreading. Here are three steps we can take to head it off

    Gordon Brown
  • A man wearing blue PPE overalls walks between barriers made of orange netting and wood past roughly constructed buildings made of wood with tin roofs.

    Inside the camp on the frontline of the DRC’s mpox epidemic – in pictures

  • Red Cross workers in a displacement camp in DRC talking to people outside their temporary homes. One girl is raising her hands

    ‘Everyone was afraid’: DRC’s most vulnerable on the mpox frontline

  • Women and young children sitting outside a treatment centre for Mpox

    Africa to finally receive first batch of vaccines for deadly mpox virus

  • Thailand confirms Asia’s first known case of new deadlier mpox variant

  • The new mpox variant may appear to be less deadly but it is spreading fast. Complacency would be a grave error

    Debora MacKenzie

  • Mpox: Argentina quarantines cargo ship over suspected case of virus

  • Fair Access
    African health officials call for solidarity not travel bans over mpox outbreak

  • What is mpox and why has it been declared a global health emergency?

  • The Guardian view on Africa’s mpox outbreak: Covid lessons need to be learned

  • First Edition newsletter
    Monday briefing: Mpox has been detected in Europe – but the real emergency is in Africa

  • Failure to deal with mpox outbreak ‘is risk not just to Africa but whole world’

  • Mpox screening stepped up globally as more cases emerge outside Africa

  • Mpox: Sweden confirms first case of ‘more grave’ variant outside Africa

  • UK prepares for mpox cases after global emergency declared

  • Mpox outbreak in Africa is public health emergency, declares WHO

  • Africa CDC declares mpox outbreak a public health emergency

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