Democratic Republic of Congo to receive U.S. vaccines for monkeypox outbreak
Next week, the Democratic Republic of Congo is expected to receive its first shipment of vaccine doses from the United States to combat a rising outbreak of monkeypox. This announcement was made by the health minister on Monday, following the World Health Organization’s recent declaration of a global emergency due to various disease outbreaks in Africa.
Monkeypox has been confirmed in both children and adults across more than a dozen countries on the continent, with a new strain of the virus starting to emerge. The situation is exacerbated by a significant shortage of vaccine doses available to address the outbreak.
Currently, the Democratic Republic of Congo has reported the highest number of monkeypox cases, estimating a need for around 3 million vaccine doses. The United States and Japa...