Pregnant women and infants are at risk should they contract mpox but there are no approved vaccines for this population.

An initial 899,000 vaccine doses have been allocated for nine countries across Africa that have been hit hard by the current mpox surge, the WHO and other health organizations say.

International: The WHO declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years in August after a new variant of the virus, called clade Ib, spread from the Democratic Republic ...

Up to 899,000 vaccine doses have been allocated to nine countries across Africa, including Nigeria, that have been hit hard ...

WHO has allocated 899,000 mpox vaccine doses to nine African nations, prioritising those hit hardest by the latest outbreak.

In September, after facing criticism on moving too slowly on vaccines, the World Health Organization cleared Bavarian Nordic's vaccine for mpox and said it was considering LC16, made by Japan's KM ...

Last week African countries reported 2,532 new mpox cases, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Burundi, ...

Vaccines currently available to the global market are Bavarian Nordic’s MVA-BN (JYNNEOS), KM Biologics’ LC16, and Emergent ...

An independent study has found that Bavarian Nordic's mpox vaccine Jynneos – currently only authorised for use in adults in the US – is also safe and generates a strong antibody response in ...

Emergent and Bavarian Nordic have both said they are ready ... "The increasing outbreaks of mpox around the world should raise concerns and spur ongoing efforts to produce and stockpile vaccines ...