Faced with monkeypox outbreak, Africa declares health “emergency”: “MPOX has crossed borders and affected thousands of people on our continent”

Africa’s public health agency announced on Tuesday that MPOX’s mainland state of emergency (The disease was previously known as Monkeypox) and announced that a joint response plan would be presented in the coming weeks.

“We announced today Public Health Emergencies The African Continental Security Department mobilized our institutions, collective will and resources to act swiftly and decisively.” Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention), Jean Cassellat a telematics press conference.

this World Health Organization WHO reported a significant increase in MPO cases, with 934 new infections and four deaths in 26 countries, a 44.6% increase compared to the 646 cases and 15 deaths recorded in the same number of countries in May.

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Similarly, outbreaks of monkeypox (MPXV) have been reported to have spread to Four new countries in East Africa: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda reported their first cases of the disease.

Kasaya urged African Union member states, on which the Africa CDC relies, to “Fast Track Authorization MPOX’s emergency response will play a critical role in safeguarding public health and ensuring rapid access to life-saving interventions.

So far in 2024, the continent has recorded more than 15,000 people are contagious 461 people have died from the infection in 18 different countries. The Africa CDC had already warned last Thursday about the rapid spread of the disease and raised the intention to declare a state of emergency on the continent, its highest form of alert.

According to data released by Kaseya at the time, between 2023 and 2024, MPOX cases in Africa increased by 160%That means this year’s number will be “more than double that of 2023, or even more.”

At a press conference on Tuesday, the head of Africa’s largest public health organization once again pointed out that More than 10 million doses of vaccine needed This number is far from the 200,000 currently available to contain the emergency.

Save the Children Alarming increase in reported cases of new, more virulent strain of MPOX in neonates Democratic Republic of the Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo). The country’s hospitals are “bursting to capacity”, exacerbating conditions in a health system already weakened by previous Ebola and Covid-19 outbreaks, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic. Lack of staff and supplies.

In some health centers, the number of patients exceeded their capacity by 4,000%. One serious case reported involved a six-week-old baby who contracted the virus because the hospital was overcrowded.

Last Saturday, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), TedrosHe confirmed that the emergency committee that advises him on epidemic outbreaks with potential international impact will analyze on Wednesday whether to once again declare the outbreak a public health emergency of international importance.