A massive vaccination campaign to fight the spread of the newest strain of M-pox could be rolled out within the coming days across a number of African countries. The epicentre of the latest deadly outbreak is the DRC, but screening and border controls are being put in place in neighbouring countries to prevent transmission. For more information, FRANCE 24’s Haxie Meyers-Belkin interviews Placide Mbaia, head of epidemiology at the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Kinshasa.
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