More than 12.6m cases were recorded this year, the region's UN health organisation says.

The UK Health Security Agency says the odour can cause discomfort and short term health effects.

The World Health Organization says the disease "that plagued pharaohs" now belongs to Egypt's history.

The health ministry says there are at least 46 cases in the east African country.

Tanzania is the latest African country to have an outbreak of the highly-infectious Marburg virus.

The head of the UN health agency says the world's attention to Sudan is "really low" and race is a factor.

The European man flew into Thailand from an unnamed African country last week, officials say.

As a global emergency is declared over mpox, our health and science correspondent assesses the threat.