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Congo's health minister says the country will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States

In today’s newsletter: With a deadly surge in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the first case in Sweden, we look at how the disease is spreading, who’s at risk and what’s being done to stop it

Hamas says it supports UN request to halt the fighting to allow a vaccination campaign for children against polio.

This summer has seen a large COVID wave – one which is showing potential to be bigger than the 2023 winter wave was.

Mpox cases are rising in Australia's eastern states, with certain groups of sexually-active men in particular urged to seek out free vaccines.

On Aug. 14, 2024, the World Health Organization declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern. There have been over 15,600 cases and over 530 deaths reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighboring countries in Africa. The disease had previously caused a global outbreak from 2022…

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Last week, South Australia announced it would offer pregnant women a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) from next year for free. It’s the first Australian state or territory to do so.

The study included 300 woman in Mali who were considering getting pregnant in the coming year.