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The mpox outbreak in Ghana is a part of the larger outbreak of human mpox caused by the West African clade of the monkeypox virus. As opposed to its West African neighbours, Ghana had no endemic presence of mpox, only experiencing it during the 2022 outbreak. The first 5 cases of mpox in Ghana was detected on June 8, 2022. [1]
Ghana previously recorded cases of mpox in 2022 and 2023. The statement described the patient as a young male, with a fever, rash and body pains. It said 25 contacts have been identified and are ...
In August, the World Health Organization declared mpox a global health emergency amid a rapidly growing outbreak in central Africa and the emergence of a new, more severe subtype of the virus. On ...
The growing mpox outbreaks in Africa that triggered the World Health Organization’s emergency declaration are largely the result of decades of neglect and the global community’s inability to ...
Most mpox patients become symptomatic 4–11 days after infection. Very short incubation periods are also possible, with 5% of patients developing symptoms within 3 days. This outbreak revealed that incubation periods of up to 4 weeks are possible, with 5% of cases having incubation periods longer than the previously assumed 21 days. [56] [57]
The WHO declared the recent outbreak of the disease a public health emergency after a new offshoot of the mpox virus, first identified in Democratic Republic of Congo, beg
Five cases in Ghana were also confirmed by the Ghana Health Service. [70] Greece detected its first case in a traveller, who had travelled to Portugal. [ 71 ] On the same day, the total number of mpox infections outside of endemic countries reached 1,000.
Mpox reached the U.S. as part of a global outbreak in 2022, resulting in 32,000 known infections and 58 deaths domestically. All those cases have been linked to the less virulent and contagious ...