As the spread of Empox continues in Africa, nearly 1,000 deaths have been reported this year.
According to a situation report by the World Health Organization and WHO, 6,754 confirmed cases and 996 deaths were reported in Africa from January to the end of last month.
There are 35,525 suspected cases of Empox.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has the highest number of cases, accounting for 90% of all confirmed cases in Africa.
The spread of M-Fox in the Democratic Congo has been noticeable this year, and the outbreak has not stopped since August, when the WHO declared an international public health emergency (PHEIC), the highest level of health alert.
In the six weeks from August 19 to April 29, there were 1,5 confirmed cases and 9,748 suspected cases in Democratic Congo, and 304 deaths.
During the same period, 1,810 confirmed cases, 11,933 suspected cases, and 304 deaths were reported in Africa, respectively.
All of the deaths of Empox on the African continent during this period came from the Democratic Congo.
An international public health emergency (PHEIC) has already been declared once in 2022 due to M-Fox, an acute fever and rash disease caused by viral infection.
At that time, the Americas and Europe were at the center of the spread of the outbreak, and the emergency was lifted when the spread subsided the following year.
Then, the WHO declared PHEIC again in August because a new type of M-Fox sub-system 1b spread rapidly around the Democratic Congo.
Subsystem type 1b, which is known to have a relatively large transmission speed and patient fatality rate, is different from the previous one in patient types.
Empox, which has spread in the face and Europe, is known to be the case where the majority of cases are adult men who have had sex with the same sex get sick.
According to the WHO's analysis of patients in northern Kivu province in Democratic Congo, 75% of the confirmed patients were children and adolescents under the age of 17, and the gender of the patients was similar between men and women.
On the 5th, the WHO began its first M.Fox vaccination in northern Kivu.
The WHO expects the vaccination project, which will be expanded to 11 Democratic Congo regions, to stop the spread of the disease.
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According to a situation report by the World Health Organization and WHO, 6,754 confirmed cases and 996 deaths were reported in Africa from January to the end of last month.
There are 35,525 suspected cases of Empox.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has the highest number of cases, accounting for 90% of all confirmed cases in Africa.
The spread of M-Fox in the Democratic Congo has been noticeable this year, and the outbreak has not stopped since August, when the WHO declared an international public health emergency (PHEIC), the highest level of health alert.
In the six weeks from August 19 to April 29, there were 1,5 confirmed cases and 9,748 suspected cases in Democratic Congo, and 304 deaths.
During the same period, 1,810 confirmed cases, 11,933 suspected cases, and 304 deaths were reported in Africa, respectively.
All of the deaths of Empox on the African continent during this period came from the Democratic Congo.
An international public health emergency (PHEIC) has already been declared once in 2022 due to M-Fox, an acute fever and rash disease caused by viral infection.
At that time, the Americas and Europe were at the center of the spread of the outbreak, and the emergency was lifted when the spread subsided the following year.
Then, the WHO declared PHEIC again in August because a new type of M-Fox sub-system 1b spread rapidly around the Democratic Congo.
Subsystem type 1b, which is known to have a relatively large transmission speed and patient fatality rate, is different from the previous one in patient types.
Empox, which has spread in the face and Europe, is known to be the case where the majority of cases are adult men who have had sex with the same sex get sick.
According to the WHO's analysis of patients in northern Kivu province in Democratic Congo, 75% of the confirmed patients were children and adolescents under the age of 17, and the gender of the patients was similar between men and women.
On the 5th, the WHO began its first M.Fox vaccination in northern Kivu.
The WHO expects the vaccination project, which will be expanded to 11 Democratic Congo regions, to stop the spread of the disease.
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