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If we can vaccinate individuals at risk they will be protected from infection and this will help control the epidemic – so both benefit the person vaccinated and the broader population,
Some people become much more unwell and they may develop a more severe illness with hundreds of lesions all over the body,
It’s a disease. Whether you get the severe form – then it leads to death – or you just recover [in] two to four weeks. Everything goes back to normal,
There is no vaccine in Africa. Whatever is left of that vaccine is stockpiled in the West as part of their own emergency preparedness. But we have an ongoing emergency here,
A lot of the transmission is in densely populated areas with many children, and children are probably more prone to running around and coming into direct skin-to-skin contact with others – so that then causes transmission. Whereas adults have less direct contact with others,
For example, people with untreated HIV [a sexually transmitted illness] or a weak immune system are at still higher risk of severe disease. Children also seem to be at higher risk of severe disease,
Beyond the fact that all infections obviously transiently cause responses in the immune system, we don’t believe there are long-term impacts on the immune system from mpox,
There are likely to be small numbers of cases exported further afield, as [in] the Swedish case, but the major risk and the focus for action needs to be on central Africa,
There is, however, vaccination, which is effective at reducing risk. The priority needs to be getting an adequate supply of vaccine to those populations most at risk in DRC and surrounding countries,
We’re paying attention to it now, but mpox has been spreading since 2017 in Congo and Nigeria,
We know nothing about this,
Bagheni’s husband, Habumuremyiza Hire, said Thursday about mpox There is talk that there are more people that have lesions around the genitals this time around than previous clade I outbreaks,
said Amira Albert Roess, a professor of global health and epidemiology at George Mason University The underlying health conditions of the population in the DRC are probably contributing to the current case fatality rate,
he said, using the acronym for the Democratic Republic of Congo We should have learned a lesson from 2022 that an infection anywhere is potentially an infection everywhere,
said Anne Rimoin, an epidemiology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health As a result of the rapid spread of this outbreak in Africa, ECDC has increased the level of risk for the general population in the EU/EEA and travelers to affected areas,
said Pamela Rendi-Wagner, director of the Stockholm-based ECDC Ensuring effective surveillance, laboratory testing, epidemiological investigation and contact tracing capacities will be vital to detecting cases of MPXV clade I on the continent and activating any response,
the agency wrote in its new risk analysis on Friday Due to frequent and close travel links,
European Union member states should issue advice for those visiting or returning from mpox outbreak areas in five Central African states: Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya Due to the close links between Europe and Africa, we must be prepared for more imported clade I cases,
its director Pamela Rendi Wagner said We are motivated to advance development for our mpox vaccine with urgency given the global public health emergency,
its CEO Seth Lederman said We take the outbreak of clade I mpox very seriously,
said Sweden’s chief epidemiologist, Magnus Gisslén