Africa pox emergency: More than 500 people have died since start of year
ByJames
New figures are revealing the scale of the Mpox epidemic in Africa.
The African Union says 517 people have died since the start of the year.
It says there are nearly 15 thousand suspected cases – although 3,000 have been confirmed.
The outbreak started last year in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Al Jazeera’s Ibtissem Guenfoud reports.
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