Dr. Shyam Sundar Nandi, a scientist at the National Institute of Virology, has developed a rapid molecular test that can ...

A new variant of human mpox has claimed the lives of approximately 5% of people with reported infections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2023, many of them children. Since then, it has ...

Researchers have developed an optical biosensor that detects the virus that causes mpox. The technology could make diagnosis much faster and cost-effective as the disease continues to spread worldwide ...

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), through its Diagnostic Advisory Committee (DAC), has recommended ...

The edition includes the PCR detection kit (UM6P-MASCIR MPOX qPCR 1.0), manufactured by Moldiag, Morocco. «The DAC reviewed ...

"It seems like there are more mpox cases already in Europe, maybe not all of them are in the media yet," said Roche CEO Thomas Schinecker, adding there was not yet much demand for test kits, but that ...

The U.S. syphilis epidemic slowed dramatically last year, gonorrhea cases fell and chlamydia cases remained below prepandemic ...

The US government’s ongoing health and development support to Uganda aims to build a strong and resilient health system capable of detecting, preventing and responding to various health threats ...

This brings the total to 10,000 test kits donated by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention since the outbreak of mpox in Uganda. As of October 30, 2024, Uganda had recorded a ...

U.S Ambassador to Uganda, William Popp, hands over a consignment of Mpox test kits to Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, the Minister of Health, at the ministry headquarters in Kampala. COURTESY PHOTO/U.S MISSION.

GOMA, Congo — Some health officials say mpox cases in Congo appear to be “stabilizing” — a possible sign that the main epidemic for which the World Health Organization made a global ...