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The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency, the highest level of alarm under international health law. It follows a public ...
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]
Mpox (/ ˈ ɛ m p ɒ k s /, EM-poks; formerly known as monkeypox) [7] is an infectious viral disease that can occur in humans and other animals. Symptoms include a rash that forms blisters and then crusts over, fever, and swollen lymph nodes .
The first 10,000 mpox vaccines are finally due to arrive next week in Africa, where a dangerous new strain of the virus - which has afflicted people there for decades - has caused global alarm.
The CDC is ramping up surveillance for mpox in the U.S., as a deadlier form of the disease spreads rapidly through the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Deadly mpox outbreak abroad is a 'global ...
The United States had the highest number of mpox cases in the world during the outbreak. [5] California had the highest number of mpox cases in the United States. On August 4, 2022, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared mpox a public health emergency in the United States. [6]
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
Mpox is a viral infection that manifests a week or two after exposure with fever and other non-specific symptoms, and then produces a rash with lesions that usually last for 2–4 weeks before drying up, crusting and falling off. [10]