The health department says the country still has has enough vaccines based on the number of active cases
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.. he health department has confirmed one new case of mpox, bringing the total number of cases reported in the country to 25. This includes three deaths, 19 recoveries and three people in isolation at home.
Last week, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said the first shipment of 99 100 doses of the JYNNEOS mpox vaccine had arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , which has had the biggest outbreak of mpox since September 2023 caused by the spread of the new clade I MPXV variant.
“We know which provinces are heavily affected, notably Equateur and South Kivu,” he said. “The idea is to contain the virus as quickly as possible.” , which was first administered in 2022 to curb the global outbreak, is a live virus vaccine scientifically proven to be safe and effective for the prevention of mpox, according to various centres for disease control.
The clade I strain has also spread to Burundi, which has reported 100 cases. Rwanda has four cases, Uganda 10 and Kenya has five confirmed cases., mpox is a viral illness caused by the monkeypox virus. Common symptoms are a skin rash, which can last for up to four weeks, accompanied by fever, headache, muscle aches, back pain, low energy and swollen lymph nodes.The virus has also been detected in Pakistan, the Philippines, Sweden and Thailand.
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