A new and possibly more infectious strain of mpox was first detected in a mining town in eastern Congo earlier this year. The central African nation has seen 96 per cent of the world’s roughly 17,000 recorded cases of mpox this year – and yet does not have a single vaccine. Experts say the current crisis has its origins in the 2022 emergency when few doses were made available to Africa
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