Scientists from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) have expressed alarm at the speed by which a new strain of the disease has been spreading. More than 15,000 mpox cases and 461 deaths have been reported on the continent this year - a 160% increase in case...
In early December, the Africa CDC said the continent was set to receive its first batch of 50,000 Mpox vaccines as a donation from South Korea and would be used first for health workers and people living in the hardest-hit areas. AFRICA TO RECEIVE ITS 1ST VACCINES FOR MPOX...
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 ...
"We are now in a situation where (mpox) poses a risk to many more neighbors in and around central Africa," 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 ...
Africa’s top health authority has declared a public health emergency amid an outbreak of Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) in several countries across the continent, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it has killed hundreds of people so far this year. Jean Kaseya, directo...
Officials at the Africa CDC said nearly 70% of cases in Congo are in children younger than 15, who also accounted for 85% of deaths. Mpox was reported last week in Burundi and Rwanda for the first time while other countries including Kenya and the Central African Republic also identified ...
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 ...
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...
epidemic preparedness innovations announced it was starting a study in congo and other african countries next month to see if giving people an mpox shot after they have been exposed to the disease could help prevent severe illness and death. more information the cdc has more ...
The new trial follows the publication of a continental plan by Africa CDC and African Ministries of Health to strengthen mpox preparedness and response efforts, as well as the World Health Organization’s (WHO) framework for enhancing prevention and control of mpox. ...