
The DRC hopes to receive its first doses of an mpox vaccine by next week, said the Congolese health minister. The children should receive the first one that vaccine because they can get sick and they can die more easily.
A case of the new variant, Clade Ib, was confirmed in Sweden (Europe) last week and linked to a growing outbreak in Africa and npox has killed for now at least 450 people in the DRC, the former Zaire, in recent months, linked to Clade Ib. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a public health emergency to mobilise resources and address knowledge gaps.