{"id":244000,"date":"2024-11-01T16:26:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T16:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/01\/africa-cdc-warns-mpox-is-not-under-control-appeals-for-resources\/"},"modified":"2024-11-01T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T16:26:08","slug":"africa-cdc-warns-mpox-is-not-under-control-appeals-for-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/01\/africa-cdc-warns-mpox-is-not-under-control-appeals-for-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa CDC warns mpox is not under control, appeals for resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/581\/58142844.295.jpg\" alt=\"A Congolese health official administers an mpox vaccination to a man\" title=\"A Congolese health official administers an mpox vaccination to a man\" width=\"295\" height=\"183\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>A Congolese health official administers an mpox vaccination to a man<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">The African Union\u2019s health watchdog has warned that the mpox outbreak was still not under control and appealed for resources to avoid a \u201cmore severe\u201d pandemic than COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation is not yet under control, we are still on the upward trend generally,\u201d Ngashi Ngongo from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) told a briefing on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,100 people have died of mpox in Africa, where some 48,000 cases have been recorded since January, according to the CDC.<\/p>\n<p>Cases were still increasing in several countries as the continent struggled to contain another major outbreak coming on the heels of COVID-19 that exposed weaknesses in Africa\u2019s health system.<\/p>\n<p>So far, 19 countries in Africa have reported cases of mpox after an infection was detected in Mauritius, popular with tourists attracted to its stunning white beaches and crystal-clear waters.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the funds to contain the outbreak were in short supply, Africa CDC warned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we need is the continuous political and financial mobilisation,\u201d Ngongo said, adding that this was a necessary measure to stop mpox from being another pandemic \u201cwhich would be much more severe than COVID-19\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mpox, previously known as monkeypox, is caused by a virus transmitted to humans by infected animals but can also be passed from human to human through close physical contact.<\/p>\n<p>The viral disease related to smallpox causes fever, body aches, swollen lymph nodes and a rash that forms into blisters, and has two main subtypes \u2013 clade 1 and clade 2.<\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom announced on Wednesday that it had detected the country\u2019s first case with the latest mpox variant, clade 1b. It has also been detected in Sweden and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Central Africa, which has been hardest hit by the outbreak, accounts for 85.7 percent of cases and 99.5 percent of deaths on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of deaths have been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the epicentre of the outbreak, which launched a vaccination drive earlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Congolese health official administers an mpox vaccination to a man The African Union\u2019s health watchdog has warned that the mpox outbreak was still not under control and appealed for resources to avoid a \u201cmore severe\u201d pandemic than COVID-19. \u201cThe situation is not yet under control, we are still on the upward trend generally,\u201d Ngashi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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