The Clade Ib strain has already jumped borders, with cases being reported in Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and Kenya in the last two weeks
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.This 1997 image was created during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox, which took place in the Democratic Republic of Congo , formerly Zaire, and depicts the palms of a patient with a case of monkeypox in Lodja, a town in the Katako-Kombe health zone.
The World Health Organisation said on Sunday it was considering convening an expert committee to advise on whether to declare an international emergency, as it did during the global mpox outbreak in 2022. But researchers in the vast Central African nation say the mortality rate from the strain can be as much as 10 percent among children.“The disease has been seen in the displacement camps around Goma in North Kivu where the extreme population density makes the situation very critical,” Louis Albert Massing, medical coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in DRC said.
The eight-member East African Community has urged governments to educate their citizens on how to protect themselves and prevent the spread of the disease.
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