The Department of Health is urging individuals with suspected Mpox disease (formally known as Monkey) symptoms to seek screening and testing for early diagnosis and effective treatment to prevent further spread.
The Department of Health is urging individuals with suspected Mpox disease symptoms to seek screening and testing for early diagnosis and effective treatment to prevent further spread.Foot-and-mouth disease remains concern for Western Cape Government
The department added that it is currently working closely with the province and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases to activate contact tracing and case finding to identify and assess individuals who may have been in contact with the patient to prevent further transmission. According to the World Health Organisation , a multi-country outbreak of Mpox saw a total of 466 laboratory-confirmed cases of mpox and three deaths in March this year, with the most affected regions being Africa, Europe, the Americas, the Western Pacific and South-East Asia.
‘About 8 to 10% of patients hospitalised for pneumonia and 25% of patients with flu-like illness will test positive for influenza during the flu season in South Africa,’ said the department in the same statement.
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