The African Union's health watchdog said Thursday it has endorsed an mpox test from Morocco, hailing it as a "major milestone" to help combat the outbreak on the continent.

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) announced Thursday its endorsement of Morocco's locally ...

Three genera of African rodent, Graphiurus (African dormice), Cricetomys (giant pouched rat) and Funisciurus (African striped squirrel), have been named as likely reservoirs of the mpox virus.

Addis ABABA. - The African continent is still in the acute phase of the Mpox outbreak as the number of cases reported so far ...

Congo reported fewer than 100 mpox cases last week, down from nearly 400 in July but infections have risen in Burundi and ...

Democratic Republic of Congo has been unable to launch an mpox vaccination campaign in the capital Kinshasa due to a shortage ...

Mpox strains are still mutating, further raising the risk of spread both in Africa and globally, Africa Centres for Disease ...

The World Health Organisation and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have committed to guiding the ...

No FDA-approved rapid tests exist that specifically test for H5N1, and the first near-point-of-care test for mpox was ...

The World Health Organization will convene a meeting later this month to determine whether the mpox outbreak occurring in ...

British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged ...

MOROCCO - The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) approved the first diagnostic test for mpox made in ...