In an On Health blog post, Ashwaq M Al-Nazawi and Ernest Tambo look at how the monkeypox outbreak will affect the Hajj and World Cup, as well as what can be done to help mitigate its effects.
© dottedyeti / stock.adobe.comAn unusual Monkeypox outbreak has emerged and been reported in over 59 non-endemic WHO member countries with more than 6,027 laboratory confirmed cases. Human infections with the central and West African clade, namely the Congo Basin clade in Cameroon, Nigeria, DR Congo, CAR, South Sudan and the Great Lakes, appear to be less severe, with fatality rates in other African countries of 3.6% and 10.
Noting the absence of regular and sustained surveillance and monitoring mechanisms in both endemic and non-endemic countries, the syndemic of COVID-19 pandemic and Monkeypox epidemic could cause more significant health, socioeconomic and global health security consequences. We urgently call for action by governments to rapidly strengthen and implement Monkeypox CDC outbreak preparedness and response actions plans in both non-endemic and endemic countries.
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