WHO Chief Estimates Mpox in Africa Can Be Stopped Within 6 Months

Geneva — Head of the World Health Organization (World Health Organization/WHO) believes the mpox outbreak in Africa could be stopped within the next six months. He also said Friday (8/30) that the agency's first vaccine shipment would arrive in Congo within days. So far, Africa has received only a fraction of the vaccines needed to slow the spread of the virus, especially in Congo, which has the most cases. Congo has recorded more than 18,000 suspected cases and 629 deaths. “With government leadership and close collaboration between partners, we are confident that we can stop this outbreak in the next six months,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference. He said that while mpox infections have increased rapidly in recent weeks, the number of deaths has been relatively low. Tedros also noted that there were 258 cases of the latest version of Mpox, with patients identified in Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Sweden and Thailand. Earlier this month, the WHO declared the mpox outbreak in Africa a global emergency, hoping to spur a robust global response to the disease on a continent where cases have spread unnoticed for years, including in Nigeria. In May, scientists detected a new …

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