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Health

DR Congo receives first shipment of mpox vaccines

A worker transports mpox vaccines as first batches arrive at N'Djili International Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo [Justin Makangara/Reuters]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has received its first batch of mpox vaccines, which health authorities hope will help curb an outbreak that has prompted the United Nations to declare a global public health emergency.

The Central African country of about 100 million people is at the epicentre of an mpox outbreak that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global public health emergency last month.

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