GENEVA, Switzerland — The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) believes the ongoing mpox outbreaks in Africa might be stopped in the next six months, saying on Friday that the agency's first shipment of vaccines should arrive in Congo within days.
GENEVA, Switzerland — The head of the World Health Organization believes the ongoing mpox outbreaks in Africa might be stopped in the next six months, saying on Friday that the agency's first shipment of vaccines should arrive in Congo within days.To date, Africa has received just a tiny fraction of the vaccines needed to slow the spread of the virus, especially in Congo, which has the most cases — more than 18,000 suspected cases and 629 deaths.
Red Cross worker sprays chlorine among the tents of internally displaced people in the Don Bosco camps in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Aug. 22, 2024. EPA PHOTOTedros said that while mpox infections had been rising quickly in the last few weeks, there had been relatively few deaths. He also said there were 258 cases of the newest version of mpox, with patients identified in Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Sweden and Thailand.
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