Countries in Africa are having to seek alternative funding amid a block to US funding for mpox response efforts.

The mpox virus is currently rampaging through the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 2,000 cases since the start of the year - some of them are expected to have been caused by the new clade 1b variant ...

A new variant of the Mpox disease declared by WHO as a public health emergency of international concern is more lethal, spreads fast and causes more fatalities. [Getty Images] As China grapples ...