When Covid emerged in early 2020 and quickly began its deadly rampage around the globe, it revealed how completely unprepared the international community was to face such a global health crisis.

A small fraction of those doses could help curb what is now the worst mpox outbreak on record in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring countries, disease experts say.

Mpox is a potentially deadly infection that causes flu-like symptoms and pus-filled lesions and spreads through close physical contact.

Mpox, a viral infection that causes pus-filled lesions and flu-like symptoms, is usually mild but can kill.