Vaccines are arriving in Africa - the heart of the outbreak - weeks after it was declared a health emergency.
Nigeria has received 10,000 doses of a vaccine to combat mpox, making it the first African country to receive a batch amid the current outbreak of disease that used to be called monkeypox.
The West African nation has not recorded any deaths from the virus. It has also not recorded any cases of Clade 1b, a new variant in the east of the Democratic Republic Congo that has also spread to neighbouring countries. Mpox can be fatal if left untreated and causes symptoms such as fever, muscle aches and lesions across the body.
Although two years have passed since the onset of the last outbreak driven by the Clade 2 variant prevalent in Nigeria, the WHO has not officially approved the two available vaccines,
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