Around a third of mpox vaccines Japan has donated to the Democratic Republic of Congo are going to waste because they cannot be stored once prepared for use, the head of Congo's mpox response said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/12/japan/donated-mpox-vaccines-congo/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #congo #mpox #vaccinations #health

Hundreds of thousands of doses of mpox vaccine that the United States had promised to send to African nations are in danger of going to waste, dozens of congressional Democrats have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/24/world/politics/us-taxpayer-vaccine-expire/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #vaccines #africa #mpox #us #donaldtrump #republicans