Mpox, the high infectious disease that used to be called monkeypox, has been declared a public health emergency in Africa by the continent’s top health body. Scientists from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) say they are alarmed by the speed at which a new...
The UN organization triggered its highest level of international health alert. The day before, the African Union’s health agency, Africa CDC, had declared a “public health emergency”. The current epidemic, which originated in the DRC, is currently confined to Africa. “Today, the emergency c...
" said Salim Abdool Karim, a South African infectious diseases expert who chairs the Africa CDC emergency group. He said the new version of mpox spreading from Congo appears to have a death rate of about 3-4%.
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The Africa CDC said the mpox death rate this year, at about 3%, “has been much higher on the African continent compared to the rest of the world.” During theglobal mpox emergencyin 2022, fewer than 1% of people infected with the virus d...
We need authentic global solidarity, equity, and urgent support for African countries to mitigate mpox outbreaks, write Ifedayo MO Adetifa and Madhukar Pai On 13 August 2024, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) declared the ongoing mpox outbreak a public health ...
Still, "due to the limited number of travelers and lack of direct commercial flights from DRC or its neighboring countries to the United States, the risk ofclade I mpox importationto the United States is considered to be very low," the CDC added. ...
Africa CDCdeclared Mpox a “public health emergency of continental security” on August 13. At least 12 African countries, including previously unaffected nations like Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, have reported Mpox outbreaks. So far in 2024, these countries have c...
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Jean Kaseya, head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), said during an online media briefing that the declaration of the health emergency was "likely" next week. At least 16 countries of the continent's 55 nations have been affected with mpox, according to ...