2023–2024 mpox epidemic
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An epidemic of mpox began in Africa in September 2023. As of August 2024, more than 17,000 cases have been reported with over 500 deaths.[2]
On 14 August 2024, the World Health Organization named the epidemic a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).[3]
Background
[change | change source]In May 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that mpox (Monkeypox) was a global health emergency. The disease had infected 87,000 people and caused 140 deaths when the WHO ended its global emergency the following year.[4]
The disease came back in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by January 2024.[5] In April of the same year, a subgroup of clade I of mpox was found in a small mining town in the Democratic Republic of Congo.[6]
In August 2024, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (ACDC) said that spreading mpox outbreaks in Africa had become a public health emergency, with over 500 deaths being reported.[7]
Outbreak
[change | change source]On 30 July 2024, the Central African Republic found an outbreak of mpox in Bangui, after a period of time when the disease was mostly found in rural areas.[8]
On 15 August 2024, Sweden's Public Health Agency reported the first case outside of Africa, was from a person who had gotten sick with Clade 1 mpox during a stay in an area of Africa.[9][10][11] That same day, a suspected case of mpox was reported in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which was later confirmed to be an actual case of mpox.[12]
On 19 August 2024, the Congolese government launched a response plan of forty-nine million dollars, for awareness raising, deployment of teams and care of patients and awaits additional doses of vaccines.[13]
See also
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention 2024, p. 1.
- ↑ Bariyo, Nicholas (14 August 2024). "Rapid Spread of Mpox in Africa Is Global Health Emergency, WHO Says". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ↑ Mandavilli, Apoorva (14 August 2024). "W.H.O. Declares Global Emergency Over New Mpox Outbreak". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ↑ Mandavilli, Apoorva (11 May 2023). "W.H.O. Ends Mpox Global Emergency". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ↑ Scott, Dylan (24 January 2024). "A deadly new outbreak is testing Africa's ambitious public health efforts". Vox. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ↑ Newey, Sarah (16 April 2024). "Mutated strain of mpox with 'pandemic potential' found in DRC mining town". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ↑ Cheng, Maria (14 August 2024). "WHO declares mpox outbreaks in Africa a global health emergency as a new form of the virus spreads". Associated Press. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ↑ Chibelushi, Wedaeli (30 July 2024). "Central African Republic latest to declare mpox outbreak". BBC News. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ↑ "One case of mpox clade I reported in Sweden". www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se. Public Health Agency of Sweden. 15 August 2024. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
- ↑ Kirby, Paul (15 August 2024). "First case of more contagious mpox found outside Africa". BBC. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
- ↑ "Första bekräftade fallet av nya mpox-varianten i Sverige". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). 15 August 2024. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
- ↑ Junaidi, Ikram (2024-08-15). "NCOC issues advisory as first suspected mpox case quarantined". Dawn. Reuters. Agence France-Presse. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
- ↑ "Mpox en RDC: un plan de riposte de 49 millions de dollars et des doses de vaccin attendues". RFI (in French). Radio France International. 2024-08-19. Retrieved 2024-08-20.
