Twenty of this year’s 26 confirmed mpox cases came after August, concentrated mostly within the Western Cape. Elri Voigt looks at how the virus has changed and how much of the donated vaccine is left.
SPOTLIGHT: Mpox vaccine stock ‘will be deployed as needed’ as cases climb to 26
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