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 declaration comes after the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced earlier this week that the outbreaks of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) were apublic health emergency, with more than 500 deaths, and called for international help to stop the virus' spread. "This is...
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. Wednesday's WHO declaration is...
On Wednesday, Kenya's Health Ministry said it found mpox in a passenger traveling from Uganda to Rwanda at a border crossing in southern Kenya. In a statement, the ministry said that a single mpox case was enough to warrant an outbreak declar...
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Where has the mpox outbreak spread? Sweden reported its first case of the more infectious form of the virus on Thursday, just a day after the WHO declaration. The patient recently sought health care in Stockholm, the Swedish public health agency saidin a statement. ...
Where has the mpox outbreak spread? Sweden reported its first case of the more infectious form of the virus on Thursday, just a day after the WHO declaration. The patient recently sought health care in Stockholm, the Swedish public health agency saidin a statement. ...
Where has the mpox outbreak spread? Sweden reported its first case of the more infectious form of the virus on Thursday, just a day after the WHO declaration. The patient recently sought health care in Stockholm, the Swedish public health agency saidin a statement. ...
Where has the mpox outbreak spread? Sweden reported its first case of the more infectious form of the virus on Thursday, just a day after the WHO declaration. The patient recently sought health care in Stockholm, the Swedish public health agency saidin a statement. ...