A vaccination campaign against mpox in Congo will begin Oct. 2, authorities said Saturday, with workers focusing on the three most affected provinces first. Earlier this week, the first batch of mpox vaccines arrived in the capital of Congo, the center of the outbreak. The European Union countries pledged to donate more than 500,000 others, but the timeline for their delivery remained unclear. Most mpox infections in Congo and Burundi, the second most affected country, are in children under age 15. Congo issued an emergency approval of the vaccine, which has already been used in Europe and the United States in adults.

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Persons: Cris Kacita Osako, Congo’s, Dr, Jean Kaseya, Laurent Muschel Organizations: mpox, Associated Press, Bavarian Nordic, European Union, Africa Center for Disease Control, World Health Organization, WHO, European Medicines Agency Locations: Congo, Equateur, South Kivu, Sankuru, Danish, European Union, Burundi, Europe, United States