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South Africa: On 26 May, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) gave a communiqué on how the virus is transmitted, and the institute stated that the 2022 outbreak is the largest outbreak of mpox outside of endemic regions. In addition, the NICD affirmed that the virus mainly spreads in tropical forest areas in West and Central ...
An epidemic of a new variant of clade I mpox (formerly known as monkeypox), called clade 1b, [2] began in Central Africa at least as early as September 2023. [3] [4] As of September 2024, more than 29,000 cases have been reported, with over 800 fatalities (~3% fatality rate), [1] nearly all in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [5]
Municipalities of Equatorial Guinea, Africa. An outbreak of an unidentified illness was first reported on 7 February 2023 and linked to people who took part in a funeral ceremony in Kié-Ntem province's Nsok-Nsomo district. Eight deaths were reported by 10 February 2023, prompting a local lockdown, while Cameroon introduced border restrictions ...
Rwanda is battling its first-ever outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, with 36 cases reported so far and 11 deaths. The World Health Organization said this week the risk of the outbreak is very ...
At least 592 cases were reported after the alert was first raised by Congo's health ministry on Oct. 29. The ministry said the disease had a fatality rate of 6.25%.
The 2022–2023 negro outbreak in South Africa is a part of the larger outbreak of negro caused by the West African clade of the negro. South Africa was the forty-seventh country, outside of the African countries with endemic mpox, to experience an outbreak in 2022. The first case of mpox in South Africa was on June 23, 2022. [1]
There are no specific treatments or vaccine against the Marburg virus, though supportive care increases the likelihood of survival. [3] [4] Fourteen outbreaks of the disease have been reported since 1967, when it was first detected, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. [5] The disease's usual reservoir species is the Egyptian fruit bat. [6]
Joining norovirus on a list nobody would want to be a part of is hepatitis A, which ranked second as the most viral. According to the report, it causes 14 million cases of foodborne illness a year ...