CONGO (Democratic Republic)TIME series analysisMONKEYPOXREGRESSION analysisSTATISTICAL modelsCONFIDENCE intervalsSince the first confirmed case of monkeypox was reported in the UK in May 2022, the monkeypox epidemic has continued to be severe, even affecting many non-monkeypox-endemic c...
Timeframes before, during and after the outbreak are based on first and last positive PCR result. The network metrics are also shown for the year 2015 as control. The horizontal line in the whisker plots represents the mean. The lower and upper bounds of the boxes indicate the first and ...
belonging to theOrthopoxvirusgenus, and exhibits symptoms similar to smallpox. In 2024, the monkeypox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continued to develop, raising widespread global public health concerns. In September 2023, the first local monkeypox outbreak was reported in Nantong...
The ongoing monkeypox outbreak in non-endemic countries is likely to be a consequence of the failure to curtail the spread of the disease in endemic regions of Africa despite decades of constant outbreaks. A globally driven one health approach to prevention and treatment of the disease is ...
With over 200 cases detected worldwide in the past month, the recent Monkeypox viral outbreak has sparked a global concern since its re-emergence in May 2022. [1] The rare contagion, belonging to the orthopoxvirus family was initially identified as a familial cluster of two cases in the Uni...
Some 2,300 people died in an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2018. In 2021, a similar outbreak claimed just 11 lives thanks to swift action Thu Jan 12 2023 - 05:31 Mpox vaccine appointments to be made available up until end of February, Cabinet to be told ...
How the current monkeypox outbreak will evolve and the extent of its effects on public health are still unclear. Nevertheless, how can the unabated emergence and re-emergence of monkeypox be explained after more than 40 years of effective vaccinal control of orthopoxvirus infections? Anticipatory ...
Outbreak of Human Monkeypox, Democratic Republic of Congo, 1996-1997.Human monkeypox is a zoonotic smallpox-like disease caused by an orthopoxvirus of interhuman transmissibility too low to sustain spread in susceptible populations. In February 1997, 88 cases of febrile pustular rash were ...
G. et al. Detection of human monkeypox in the Republic of the Congo following intensive community education. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 88, 982–985 (2013). Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Formenty, P. et al. Human monkeypox outbreak caused by novel virus belonging to ...
For example, a potential outbreak site such as prisons is largely ignored in the response. It should not be assumed that inmates are not at risk because there have not been any significant outbreaks in prisons; rather, it should be viewed as an opportunity to halt the spread in areas that...