Mpox spreading in Congo’s capital, NY Times reports

In crowded Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, two strains of mpox are sweeping through a community that relies on selling sex, threatening global efforts to contain the virus, The New York Times’ Stephanie Nolen reports. Hundreds of thousands of vaccines sent to the country have not been used, according to the report. The detection of a new, fast-spreading strain of the virus in a remote mining town in eastern Congo led the World Health Organization to declare mpox a global public health emergency in August, and the spread has only accelerated since then. TheFly notes that Geovax (GOVX) and Emergent Biosolutions (EBS) both have mpox-related products.