The Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded more than 100 mpox-related deaths in a week, a toll the agency's director-general described as “not acceptable.” Dr.
FILE - A health worker attends to an mpox patient, at a treatment center in Munigi, eastern Congo, Aug. 19, 2024. Mpox vaccine MVA-BN vaccine, manufactured by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic, are offloaded from a plane in Kinshasa, Congo, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024.Mpox vaccine MVA-BN vaccine, manufactured by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic, are offloaded from a plane in Kinshasa, Congo, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024.
Kaseya said there was need for increased testing and resources to support it, adding that the continent was not testing enough and that it “cannot rely on only confirmed cases for decision-making and response.”WHO and Africa CDC launch a response plan to the mpox outbreakMpox can be transmitted from mother to child during pregnancy, and Kaseya said more research is needed to determine how common this is.
Africa is in the process of receiving vaccines. Some 250,000 doses have already been delivered to Congo, but these are just a fraction of the 3 million doses authorities have said are needed to end the outbreak there,
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