Monkeypox Officially Declared International Health Crisis After New Variant Spreads

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The World Health Organization declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency on Wednesday, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen countries and a new form of the virus spreading. Few vaccine doses are available on the continent.

Earlier this week, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the mpox outbreaks were a public health emergency, with more than 500 deaths, and called for international help to stop the virus’ spread.

“This is something that should concern us all ... The potential for further spread within Africa and beyond is very worrying,” said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

The Africa CDC previously said mpox, also known as monkeypox, has been detected in 13 countries this year, and more than 96% of all cases and deaths are in Congo. Cases are up 160% and deaths are up 19% compared with the same period last year. So far, there have been more than 14,000 cases and 524 people have died.

“We are now in a situation where (mpox) poses a risk to many more neighbors in and around central Africa,” said Salim Abdool Karim, a South African infectious diseases expert who chairs the Africa CDC emergency group. He said the new version of mpox spreading from Congo appears to have a death rate of about 3-4%.

In 2022, WHO declared mpox to be a global emergency after it spread to more than 70 countries that had not previously reported mpox, mostly affecting gay and bisexual men. In that outbreak, fewer than 1% of people died.

Michael Marks, a professor of medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said declaring these latest mpox outbreaks in Africa an emergency is warranted if that might lead to more support to contain them.

“It’s a failure of the global community that things had to get this bad to release the resources needed,” he said.

Officials at the Africa CDC said nearly 70% of cases in Congo are in children younger than 15, who also accounted for 85% of deaths.

https://apnews.com/article/who-mpox-africa-health-emergency-cc9bdf31b49d06bec5efd44fb55d5e42

[JoeMo 3,889]

Cba

[RAMROD 117,256]

If anyone confused, the ones from 2022 are less fatal/deadly than the ones right now. And it affects children and straights too now.

Get yourself vaxxed if you haven't already! 

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Scary! Is it something most children are vaxxed against already? I got everything required growing up.. but I guess this is a new, stronger variant. 

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1 minute ago, weed said:

Scary! Is it something most children are vaxxed against already? I got everything required growing up.. but I guess this is a new, stronger variant. 

You might confuse this with chicken pox or smallpox 

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3 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

You might confuse this with chicken pox or smallpox 

yeah idk anything about measles or mumps or chicken pox or most things lol  if it gets more serious I'll def look into getting a shot locally 

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2 minutes ago, weed said:

yeah idk anything about measles or mumps or chicken pox or most things lol  if it gets more serious I'll def look into getting a shot locally 

Yup, if there's reported case in your area locally, get one asap 

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[ALGAYDO 35,182]

Right on time for Gaga to release LG7 

[Anderson123 42,740]

Monkeypox found out about Taylor and decided to release even more variants than her.

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At least I finally started my HIV treatment  it's gonna be a nightmare getting the vaccine over here.

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I got monkeypox the first time and let me tell you that was the most painful experience. Get vaxxed y’all 

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I got the two shot doses the first time around (still have a very mild mark lol fml)

 

do we get a new round in the US??

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5 minutes ago, Argentum said:

I got the two shot doses the first time around (still have a very mild mark lol fml)

 

do we get a new round in the US??

Not yet. But we might hear updates soon now this is global news. 

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Oh for ****s sake