Diamond Member Pelican Press 0 Posted August 27, 2024 Diamond Member Share Posted August 27, 2024 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up *******’s mpox outbreaks due to decades of neglect, experts say – National The rising mpox outbreaks in ******* that triggered the World Health Organization’s emergency declaration are largely the result of decades of neglect and the global community’s inability to stop sporadic epidemics among a population with little immunity against the smallpox-related ********, leading ******** scientists said Tuesday. data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw== According to Dr. Dimie Ogoina, who chaired WHO’s mpox emergency committee, negligence had led to a new, more transmissible version of the virus emerging in countries with few resources to stop outbreaks. Mpox, also known as monkeypox, had been spreading mostly undetected for years in Nigeria and elsewhere before the ******** prompted the 2022 outbreak in more than 70 countries, Ogoina said at a virtual news conference. “What we are witnessing in ******* now is different from the global outbreak in 2022,” he said. While that outbreak was overwhelmingly focused in gay and ********* men, mpox in ******* is now being spread via ******* transmission as well as through close contact among children, pregnant women and other vulnerable groups. Story continues below advertisement And while most people over 50 were likely vaccinated against smallpox — which may provide some protection against mpox — that is not the case for *******’s mostly young population, who Ogoina said were mostly susceptible. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up /applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png"> 2:16 Health Matters: Germany to donate 100,000 mpox vaccines to combat outbreak Mpox belongs to the same family of viruses as smallpox but causes milder symptoms like fever, chills and body aches. It mostly spreads through close skin-to-skin contact, including ****. People with more serious cases can develop prominent blisters on the face, hands, chest and genitals. data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw== Get weekly health news Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday. Earlier this month, WHO declared the surging mpox outbreaks in Congo and 11 other countries in ******* to be a global emergency. Out of a total of 18,910 cases in 2024, 94 per cent— or 17,794 — were in Congo, the ******* Centers for ******** Control and Prevention said, with 535 of the 541 deaths reported last week. Nearly 70 per cent of mpox infections in Congo are in children under 15. Story continues below advertisement Dr. Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, a Congolese scientist who helped identify the newest version of mpox, said diagnostic tests being used in the country did not always pick it up, making it hard to track the variant’s spread. In May, Mbala-Kingebeni, who heads a lab at Congo’s National Institute for Biomedical Research, published research showing a new form of mpox that may be less deadly but more transmissible. The mutations noted in the new form of mpox suggested it was “more adapted to human transmission,” he said, but the lack of tests in Congo and elsewhere were complicating efforts to monitor outbreaks. The new variant has been detected in four other ******** countries as well as Sweden, where health officials said they have identified the first case of a person this month with the more infectious form of mpox. The person had been infected during a stay in *******. WHO said that available data to date does not suggest that the new form of mpox is more dangerous but that research is ongoing. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up /applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png"> 4:36 ‘Mpox is not the new COVID,’ WHO says amid virus surge in Europe, ******* Trending Now data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw== U.S. high school quarterback, 16, ***** from on-field brain injury data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw== Superyacht sinking: Captain under investigation for manslaughter Marion Koopmans, a virologist at Erasmus Medical Centre in the Netherlands who has been studying mpox, said scientists were now seeing some significant impacts of the ********, noting that pregnant women were miscarrying or losing their fetuses and that some ******* were being born infected with mpox, which was also leading to “severe outcomes.” Story continues below advertisement Ogoina, a professor of infectious ********* at ****** Delta University in Nigeria, said that in the absence of vaccines and drugs, ******** health workers should focus on providing supportive care, like ensuring patients have enough to eat and are given mental health support, given the stigma that often comes with mpox. “It’s very, very unfortunate that we have had mpox for 54 years and we are only now thinking about therapeutics,” he said. Mbala-Kingebeni said strategies previously used to stop Ebola outbreaks in ******* might help, given the limited numbers of shots expected. He said authorities have estimated ******* needs about 10 million doses but might only receive about 500,000 — and it’s unclear when they might arrive. “Finding a case and vaccinating around the case, like we did with Ebola, might help us target the hot spots,” he said. On Tuesday, WHO issued an appeal for $87.4 million for the next six months that it said was needed to stop the spread of mpox. The agency previously said that past efforts to raise money for mpox did not elicit a single donor dollar. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up /applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png"> 2:07 WHO declares mpox a global public health emergency for 2nd time © 2024 The ********* Press This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up #Africas #mpox #outbreaks #due #decades #neglect #experts #National This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/110732-africa%E2%80%99s-mpox-outbreaks-due-to-decades-of-neglect-experts-say-%E2%80%93-national/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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