Congo’s South Kivu province is at the epicenter of the world’s latest mpox outbreak, in what the World Health Organization has called a global health emergency. A new strain of the virus is spreading, largely through skin-to-skin contact, sparking alarm among disease experts.

Patients desperately wait for mpox vaccine at South Kivu Province clinic

Congo’s South Kivu province is at the epicenter of the world’s latest mpox outbreak, in what the World Health Organization has called a global health emergency. A new strain of the virus is spreading, largely through skin-to-skin contact, sparking alarm among disease experts.