First doses of mpox vaccine from US arrive in DR Congo
Voice of America
FILE - Officials stand near mpox vaccines as first batches from Europe arrive at N'Djili International Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sept. 5, 2024. DRC officials said the first doses from the United States arrived on Sept. 10, 2024.
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo said that 50,000 doses of mpox vaccine from the United States arrived in the country on Tuesday, a week after the first batch arrived from the European Union.
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