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We are motivated to advance development for our mpox vaccine with urgency given the global public health emergency,
its CEO Seth Lederman said 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 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 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 It is not surprising... that travel between continents has brought this case to Europe,
said Brian Ferguson, an Associate Professor of Immunology at the University of Cambridge 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 We have what we need to stop mpox,
said Dr. Chris Beyrer, director of Duke University's Global Health Institute We are actually in a good place to get control of this pandemic, but we have to make the decision to prioritize Africa,
This declaration is not merely a formality. It's a clarion call to action. It's a recognition that we can no longer afford to be reactive; we must be proactive and aggressive in our effort to contain and eliminate this threat."
Jean Kaseya, head of the Africa CDC, said The use of ring vaccination, where those who were close to monkeypox cases are vaccinated, played a role,
he told Fox News Digital last year With clade 1b, the lesions appear within 14 days of infection,
said Dr Leandre Murhula Masirkika, a scientist at the Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles in the DRC who has pioneered research on the new variant Those travelling to areas affected by the ongoing outbreak should take sensible precautions to protect themselves from the risk of infection,
said Dr Mary Ramsay, Director of Public Health Programmes at UKHSA told The Telegraph But before that, symptoms can be as subtle as a headache and fever – they might be walking around with it and be infectious,
If a practitioner saw a patient in a clinic, there’s no way they could tell if this was clade 1b or 2 until it was sent away for testing, and so I think it’s likely there are cases here that are being missed,
People with a milder infection (such as small lesions on their genitalia) could be walking around with it because they don’t know they’re infected. They might get on a plane with it, without knowing and spread it further,
Anyone who has symptoms and suspects having contracted the mpox virus can go to any of the emergency services of the public hospitals in Madrid."
We don’t know that it’s more transmissible, but it is transmitting through an efficient mode.”
Dr Rosamund Lewis, the World Health Organization (WHO) lead for mpox, said At the moment, the risk of a surge in monkeypox infection is very low in India and there is no need to panic,
PTI quoted the person aware of the development as saying