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Mpox crisis: Africa to finally receive its first batch of vaccines against virus

10,000 shots, donated by the US, will be used to tackle the clade Ib variant. This new variant began to spread into the Democratic Republic of the Congo, neighbouring African countries, and also outside Africa. The WHO declared mpox a global health emergency on August 14 following the rapid spread of clade lb. A warning by experts before Africa got the jabs Vaccines against mpox have been made available in over 70 countries outside Africa.