Vaccines are desperately needed, but they're just \"an additional tool,\" said Emmanuel Lampaert, the Congo representative for Doctors Without Borders.<\/p>\n
The key, Lampaert said, is still identifying cases, isolating patients, and executing grassroots health and education campaigns.<\/p>\n
Africa still has no capacity to produce vaccines and the vaccine is also approved only for adults.<\/p>\n
Around 250,000 doses have arrived<\/strong><\/a> in Congo from the European Union and the United States, and more are expected, with authorities saying they need around three million there.<\/p>\n Critics also say the mpox response has been sluggish compared to the funding to address Ebola and COVID-19.<\/p>\n Health experts say the sharp contrast is due to a lack of both funds and international interest.<\/p>\n \"Ebola is the most dangerous virus in the world, and COVID wiped out the world economy,\" said Ali Bulabula, who works on infectious diseases in the medical department at Congo\u2019s University of Kindu.<\/p>\n \"While mpox is a public health emergency of international concern, there is a lack of in-depth research and interest in the virus, as it\u2019s still seen as a tropical disease, localised to Africa with no major impact on Western 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Congo","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Briton and Belgian amongst 37 people sentenced to death in DR Congo","titleListing2":"Briton and Belgian amongst 37 people sentenced to death in DR Congo","leadin":"A military court in DR Congo handed down death sentences on Friday to 37 people after convicting them on charges of participating in a coup attempt.","summary":"A military court in DR Congo handed down death sentences on Friday to 37 people after convicting them on charges of participating in a coup attempt.","keySentence":"","url":"briton-and-belgian-amongst-37-people-sentenced-to-death-in-dr-congo","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/09\/14\/briton-and-belgian-amongst-37-people-sentenced-to-death-in-dr-congo","masterCms":"v2","plainText":" A military court in Congo handed down death sentences on Friday to 37 people after convicting them on charges of participating in a coup attempt. \n\nThe defendants, most of them Congolese but also including three US citizens, a Briton, a Belgian and a Canadian, have five days to appeal the verdict on charges that include attempted coup, terrorism and criminal association. Fourteen people were acquitted in the trial, which opened in June.\n\nThe court in the capital, Kinshasa, convicted the 37 defendants and imposed \u201cthe harshest penalty, that of death\u201d in the verdict delivered by the presiding judge, Maj. Freddy Ehuma, at an open-air military court proceeding that was broadcast live on TV. The three Americans, wearing blue and yellow prison clothes and sitting in plastic chairs, appeared stoic as a translator explained their sentence.\n\nRichard Bondo, the lawyer who defended the six foreigners, said he disputed whether the death penalty could currently be imposed in Congo, despite its reinstatement earlier this year, and said his clients had inadequate interpreters during the investigation of the case. \n\n\"We will challenge this decision on appeal,\u201d Bondo said.\n\nSix people were killed during the botched coup attempt led by the little-known opposition figure Christian Malanga in May that targeted the presidential palace and a close ally of President Felix Tshisekedi. Malanga was fatally shot while resisting arrest soon after live-streaming the attack on his social media, the Congolese army said.\n\nMalanga\u2019s 21-year-old son Marcel Malanga, who is a US citizen, and two other Americans were convicted in the the attack. His mother, Brittney Sawyer, has said her son is innocent and was simply following his father, who considered himself president of a shadow government in exile.\n\nIn the months since her son's arrest, Sawyer has declined multiple interview requests and has focused her energy on fundraising to send Marcel money for food, hygiene products and a bed. He has been sleeping on the floor of his prison cell and is suffering from a liver disease, she said.\n\nThe other Americans are Tyler Thompson Jr., 21, who flew to Africa from Utah with the younger Malanga for what his family believed was a vacation, and Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, 36, who is reported to have known Christian Malanga through a gold mining company. The company was set up in Mozambique in 2022, according to an official journal published by Mozambique\u2019s government, and a report by the Africa Intelligence newsletter.\n\nUS State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters in Washington on Friday that the federal government was aware of the verdict. The department has not declared the three Americans wrongfully detained, making it unlikely that US officials would try to negotiate their return.\n\n\u201cWe understand that the legal process in the DRC allows for defendants to appeal the court\u2019s decision,\" Miller said. \"Embassy staff have been attending these proceedings as they\u2019ve gone through the process. We continue to attend the proceedings and follow the developments closely.\u201d\n\nThompson had been invited on an Africa trip by the younger Malanga, his former high school football teammate in a Salt Lake City suburb. But the itinerary might have included more than sightseeing. Other teammates alleged that Marcel had offered up to 90,000 euros to join him on a \u201csecurity job\u201d in Congo.\n\nThompson\u2019s family maintains he had no knowledge of the elder Malanga\u2019s intentions, no plans for political activism and didn\u2019t even plan to enter Congo. He and the Malangas were meant to travel only to South Africa and Eswatini, his stepmother, Miranda Thompson, told The Associated Press in May.\n\nThe Thompsons have been working with a lawyer in their home state of Utah to encourage US officials to intervene. Utah\u2019s US Sens. Mitt Romney and Mike Lee have not publicly urged the US government to advocate for the Americans' release.\n\n\u201cMy thoughts are with the families during this difficult time,\" Lee told the AP on Friday. \u201cWe will continue to work with the State Department to receive updates on this case.\u201d\n\n\u201cThis is an extremely difficult and frightening situation for the families involved,\" Romney spokesperson Dilan Maxfield said. \"Our office has consistently engaged with the State Department and will continue to do so.\u201d\n\nLast month, the military prosecutor, Lt. Col. Innocent Radjabu, called on the judges to sentence all of the defendants to death, except for one who suffers from \u201cpsychological problems.\u201d\n\nCongo reinstated the death penalty earlier this year, lifting a more than two-decade-old moratorium, as authorities struggle to curb violence and militant attacks in the country. The country's penal code allows the president to designate the method of execution. Past executions of militants in Congo have been carried out by firing squad.\n\n","htmlText":" A military court in Congo handed down death sentences on Friday to 37 people after convicting them on charges of participating in a coup attempt. <\/p>\n The defendants, most of them Congolese but also including three US citizens, a Briton, a Belgian and a Canadian, have five days to appeal the verdict on charges that include attempted coup, terrorism and criminal association. Fourteen people were acquitted in the trial, which opened in June.<\/p>\n The court in the capital, Kinshasa, convicted the 37 defendants and imposed \u201cthe harshest penalty, that of death\u201d in the verdict delivered by the presiding judge, Maj. Freddy Ehuma, at an open-air military court proceeding that was broadcast live on TV. The three Americans, wearing blue and yellow prison clothes and sitting in plastic chairs, appeared stoic as a translator explained their sentence.<\/p>\n Richard Bondo, the lawyer who defended the six foreigners, said he disputed whether the death penalty could currently be imposed in Congo, despite its reinstatement earlier this year, and said his clients had inadequate interpreters during the investigation of the case. <\/p>\n \"We will challenge this decision on appeal,\u201d Bondo said.<\/p>\n Six people were killed during the botched coup attempt led by the little-known opposition figure Christian Malanga in May that targeted the presidential palace and a close ally of President Felix Tshisekedi. Malanga was fatally shot while resisting arrest soon after live-streaming the attack on his social media, the Congolese army said.<\/p>\n Malanga\u2019s 21-year-old son Marcel Malanga, who is a US citizen, and two other Americans were convicted in the the attack. His mother, Brittney Sawyer, has said her son is innocent and was simply following his father, who considered himself president of a shadow government in exile.<\/p>\n In the months since her son's arrest, Sawyer has declined multiple interview requests and has focused her energy on fundraising to send Marcel money for food, hygiene products and a bed. He has been sleeping on the floor of his prison cell and is suffering from a liver disease, she said.<\/p>\n The other Americans are Tyler Thompson Jr., 21, who flew to Africa from Utah with the younger Malanga for what his family believed was a vacation, and Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, 36, who is reported to have known Christian Malanga through a gold mining company. The company was set up in Mozambique in 2022, according to an official journal published by Mozambique\u2019s government, and a report by the Africa Intelligence newsletter.<\/p>\n US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters in Washington on Friday that the federal government was aware of the verdict. The department has not declared the three Americans wrongfully detained, making it unlikely that US officials would try to negotiate their return.<\/p>\n \u201cWe understand that the legal process in the DRC allows for defendants to appeal the court\u2019s decision,\" Miller said. \"Embassy staff have been attending these proceedings as they\u2019ve gone through the process. We continue to attend the proceedings and follow the developments closely.\u201d<\/p>\n Thompson had been invited on an Africa trip by the younger Malanga, his former high school football teammate in a Salt Lake City suburb. But the itinerary might have included more than sightseeing. Other teammates alleged that Marcel had offered up to 90,000 euros to join him on a \u201csecurity job\u201d in Congo.<\/p>\n Thompson\u2019s family maintains he had no knowledge of the elder Malanga\u2019s intentions, no plans for political activism and didn\u2019t even plan to enter Congo. He and the Malangas were meant to travel only to South Africa and Eswatini, his stepmother, Miranda Thompson, told The Associated Press in May.<\/p>\n The Thompsons have been working with a lawyer in their home state of Utah to encourage US officials to intervene. Utah\u2019s US Sens. Mitt Romney and Mike Lee have not publicly urged the US government to advocate for the Americans' release.<\/p>\n \u201cMy thoughts are with the families during this difficult time,\" Lee told the AP on Friday. \u201cWe will continue to work with the State Department to receive updates on this case.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is an extremely difficult and frightening situation for the families involved,\" Romney spokesperson Dilan Maxfield said. \"Our office has consistently engaged with the State Department and will continue to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n Last month, the military prosecutor, Lt. Col. Innocent Radjabu, called on the judges to sentence all of the defendants to death, except for one who suffers from \u201cpsychological problems.\u201d<\/p>\n Congo reinstated the death penalty earlier this year, lifting a more than two-decade-old moratorium, as authorities struggle to curb violence and militant attacks in the country. The country's penal code allows the president to designate the method of execution. Past executions of militants in Congo have been carried out by firing squad.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1726299942,"updatedAt":1726743091,"publishedAt":1726303798,"firstPublishedAt":1726303798,"lastPublishedAt":1726743091,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/73\/05\/00\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_6a12a0dc-5e99-5a29-882f-7c3689da49cb-8730500.jpg","altText":"FILE - The defendants sitting in court in Kinshasa, DR Congo June 7, 2024.","caption":"FILE - The defendants sitting in court in Kinshasa, DR Congo June 7, 2024.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Samy Ntumba Shambuyi\/Copyright 2021 The AP. 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MPOX VACCINES TO DRC","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"EU-donated mpox vaccines arrive in DRC after WHO declared health emergency","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"EU-donated mpox vaccines arrive in Kinshasa","titleListing2":"EU-donated mpox vaccines arrive in DRC three weeks after WHO declared health emergency","leadin":"The 100,000 doses of the MVA-BN vaccine, manufactured by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic, have been donated through HERA, the EU's agency for health emergencies.","summary":"The 100,000 doses of the MVA-BN vaccine, manufactured by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic, have been donated through HERA, the EU's agency for health emergencies.","keySentence":"","url":"eu-donated-mpox-vaccines-arrive-in-drc-after-who-declared-health-emergency","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2024\/09\/05\/eu-donated-mpox-vaccines-arrive-in-drc-after-who-declared-health-emergency","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The first batch of mpox vaccines has arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo, three weeks after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox outbreaks in 12 African countries a global emergency.\u00a0\n\nThe 100,000 doses of the MVA-BN vaccine, manufactured by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic, have been donated by the European Union through HERA, the bloc's agency for health emergencies.\u00a0\n\n\"This will be the first delivery of the vaccine to the country. The second delivery of around 100,000 doses is expected to arrive in the following days,\" said EU Commission spokesperson, Stefan de Keersmaecker.\n\n\"These deliveries are part of the 215,000 vaccine doses that the European Commission, HERA, that is Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority procured and also pledged to share with affected countries in Africa\".\n\nCongolese authorities confirmed a further 100,000 doses are expected to be delivered on Saturday.\n\nUNICEF is going to be in charge of the vaccination campaign in the most impacted provinces, Congo's Health Minister Roger Kamba told reporters after the delivery of the vaccine.\n\nBut it remained unclear when the vaccination drive would begin.\n\nAbout 380,000 doses of mpox vaccines have been promised by Western partners such as the European Union and the United States, Dr Jean Kaseya, head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters last week.\n\nThat is less than 15 per cent of the three million doses authorities have said are needed to end the mpox outbreaks in Congo, the epicentre of the global health emergency.\n\nLast week, the organisation said there were more than 22,800 mpox cases and 622 deaths on the continent and that infections had jumped 200 per cent in the last week.\n\nThe majority of cases and deaths are in the DRC, where the new mpox variant was first detected and where most mpox infections are in children under 15.\n\nFollowing the global mpox outbreak in 2022, wealthy countries quickly responded with vaccines and treatments from their stockpiles.\n\nHowever, only a few doses have reached Africa despite pleas from governments there.\n\nThe MVA-BN vaccine has already been used in Europe and the United States, the EU said, and it is authorised for use in adults.\n\nThe European Medicines Agency is examining additional data to be able to administer it to children aged 12 to 17, which could happen at the end of the month.\n\n215,000 doses were pledged and purchased for an undisclosed amount specifically to be donated to Congo, said Laurent Muschel, the Director-General of HERA.\n\nThe US said last week that it donated 10,000 doses of mpox vaccines to Nigeria, where the disease has been common.\n\nIt is the first known donation to Africa since the current outbreaks.\n\nNigeria has recorded 40 cases of the virus this year, according to Nigeria\u2019s CDC.\n\nMpox, formerly known as monkeypox, had been spreading mostly undetected for years in Africa before the disease prompted the 2022 outbreak in more than 70 countries, Dr Dimie Ogoina, the chair of WHO's mpox emergency committee told reporters last month.\n\n","htmlText":" The first batch of mpox vaccines has arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo, three weeks after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox<\/strong><\/a> outbreaks in 12 African countries a global emergency<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The 100,000 doses of the MVA-BN vaccine, manufactured by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic, have been donated by the European Union through HERA, the bloc's agency for health emergencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n \"This will be the first delivery of the vaccine to the country. The second delivery of around 100,000 doses is expected to arrive in the following days,\" said EU Commission spokesperson, Stefan de Keersmaecker.<\/p>\n \"These deliveries are part of the 215,000 vaccine doses that the European Commission, HERA, that is Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority procured and also pledged to share with affected countries in Africa\".<\/p>\n Congolese authorities confirmed a further 100,000 doses are expected to be delivered on Saturday.<\/p>\n UNICEF is going to be in charge of the vaccination campaign<\/strong><\/a> in the most impacted provinces, Congo's Health Minister Roger Kamba told reporters after the delivery of the vaccine.<\/p>\n But it remained unclear when the vaccination drive would begin.<\/p>\n About 380,000 doses of mpox vaccines have been promised by Western partners such as the European Union and the United States, Dr Jean Kaseya, head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters last week.<\/p>\n That is less than 15 per cent of the three million doses authorities have said are needed to end the mpox outbreaks in Congo, the epicentre of the global health emergency.<\/p>\n Last week, the organisation said there were more than 22,800 mpox cases and 622 deaths on the continent and that infections had jumped 200 per cent in the last week.<\/p>\n The majority of cases and deaths are in the DRC, where the new mpox variant was first detected and where most mpox infections are in children under 15.<\/p>\n Following the global mpox outbreak<\/strong><\/a> in 2022, wealthy countries quickly responded with vaccines and treatments from their stockpiles.<\/p>\n However, only a few doses have reached Africa despite pleas from governments there.<\/p>\n The MVA-BN vaccine has already been used in Europe and the United States, the EU said, and it is authorised for use in adults.<\/p>\n The European Medicines Agency is examining additional data to be able to administer it to children aged 12 to 17, which could happen at the end of the month.<\/p>\n 215,000 doses were pledged and purchased for an undisclosed amount specifically to be donated to Congo, said Laurent Muschel, the Director-General of HERA.<\/p>\n The US said last week that it donated 10,000 doses of mpox vaccines to Nigeria, where the disease has been common.<\/p>\n It is the first known donation to Africa since the current outbreaks.<\/p>\n Nigeria has recorded 40 cases of the virus this year, according to Nigeria\u2019s CDC.<\/p>\n Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, had been spreading mostly undetected for years in Africa before the disease prompted the 2022 outbreak in more than 70 countries, Dr Dimie Ogoina, the chair of WHO's mpox emergency committee told reporters last month.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1725570559,"updatedAt":1725668529,"publishedAt":1725571157,"firstPublishedAt":1725571157,"lastPublishedAt":1725668529,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/70\/77\/94\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_4641864b-4cce-5dcf-8178-5ca910c0fb22-8707794.jpg","altText":"Mpox vaccines manufactured by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic are offloaded from a plane in Kinshasa, September 5, 2024","caption":"Mpox vaccines manufactured by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic are offloaded from a plane in Kinshasa, September 5, 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Samy Ntumba Shambuyi\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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WIRE CONGO MPOX","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"DRC hopes to receive mpox vaccines to address health emergency next week","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"DRC hopes to receive mpox vaccines to address health emergency ","titleListing2":"DRC hopes to receive mpox vaccines to address health emergency next week","leadin":"Most of the mpox cases and deaths have been in Congo, with a new strain that is likely more transmissible spreading there.","summary":"Most of the mpox cases and deaths have been in Congo, with a new strain that is likely more transmissible spreading there.","keySentence":"","url":"drc-hopes-to-receive-mpox-vaccines-to-address-health-emergency-next-week","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2024\/08\/20\/drc-hopes-to-receive-mpox-vaccines-to-address-health-emergency-next-week","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) hopes to receive vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak by next week, the Congolese health minister said on Monday.\n\nMore than 16,000 mpox cases have been confirmed in the country and roughly 570 deaths, with the virus spreading in some 17 African countries, the DRC's health minister Samuel Roger Kamba told reporters.\n\nThe mortality of the virus in the DRC is currently at around 3.4 per cent, he added.\n\n\"The vaccine is only part of the response. The first response is hygiene measures,\" Kamba said. \"It is contact that spreads the disease,\" he added.\n\nThe outbreak in multiple African countries prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) last week to declare mpox a global health emergency.\n\nThe infectious disease, caused by the monkeypox virus, can cause a rash or lesions which can spread through close contact or sex.\n\nKamba said the DRC needed some 3.5 million vaccine doses against mpox to protect people, adding that once the country gets vaccines they will need to use them despite people's hesitancy. \n\nMost cases and deaths globally have been in Congo.\n\nYoung people and children are the most impacted there, the minister added, pointing out that people who had the smallpox vaccine have protection against mpox, but since these vaccinations stopped in the 1980s, young people are still susceptible.\n\nThe international organisation Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance said it planned from 2026 to establish a \"global stockpile\" of mpox vaccines and in the interim to support the outbreak response in the DRC.\n\nRisk level raised in Europe\n\nEuropean health authorities raised the risk level for mpox last week, saying it is \"highly likely\" there will be more imported cases of mpox clade I, the strain that is spreading in Africa.\n\nThe variant of mpox that caused the 2022 outbreak, called clade II, continues to circulate in Europe.\n\n\"Two years ago, we controlled mpox in Europe thanks to the direct engagement with the most affected communities of men who have sex with men,\" Hans Kluge, WHO's regional director for Europe, said in a statement on Tuesday.\n\n\"We put in place robust surveillance; we thoroughly investigated new cases contacts; and we provided sound public health advice... Learning from our success, we urged governments and health authorities to sustain those measures \u2013 to help eliminate mpox from Europe.\n\n\"But through a lack of commitment and a lack of resources we failed to go the last mile,\" Kluge said, adding that Europe should refocus on surveillance and diagnostics given the new emergency related to mpox clade I.\n\nThere is also a need for Europe \"to act in solidarity\" with the African region, he said, pointing out, however, that mpox is not the new COVID-19.\n\nSweden reported its first case of the new strain of mpox that is circulating in the DRC and is thought to be more transmissible.\n\nThe Swedish public health agency said, however, that the imported case \"does not affect the risk to the general population\".\n\n","htmlText":" The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) hopes to receive vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak by next week, the Congolese health minister said on Monday.<\/p>\n More than 16,000 mpox cases have been confirmed in the country and roughly 570 deaths, with the virus spreading in some 17 African countries, the DRC's health minister Samuel Roger Kamba told reporters.<\/p>\n The mortality of the virus in the DRC is currently at around 3.4 per cent, he added.<\/p>\n \"The vaccine is only part of the response. The first response is hygiene measures,\" Kamba said. \"It is contact that spreads the disease,\" he added.<\/p>\n The outbreak in multiple African countries prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) last week to declare mpox a global health emergency<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The infectious disease, caused by the monkeypox virus, can cause a rash or lesions which can spread through close contact or sex.<\/p>\n Kamba said the DRC needed some 3.5 million vaccine doses against mpox to protect people, adding that once the country gets vaccines they will need to use them despite people's hesitancy. <\/p>\n Most cases and deaths globally have been in Congo.<\/p>\n Young people and children are the most impacted there, the minister added, pointing out that people who had the smallpox vaccine have protection against mpox, but since these vaccinations stopped in the 1980s, young people are still susceptible.<\/p>\n The international organisation Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance said it planned from 2026 to establish a \"global stockpile\" of mpox vaccines and in the interim to support the outbreak response in the DRC.<\/p>\n European health authorities raised the risk level for mpox last week, saying it is<\/strong><\/a> \"highly likely\" there will be more imported cases of mpox clade I, the strain that is spreading in Africa.<\/p>\n The variant of mpox that caused the 2022 outbreak, called clade II, continues to circulate in Europe.<\/p>\n \"Two years ago, we controlled mpox in Europe thanks to the direct engagement with the most affected communities of men who have sex with men,\" Hans Kluge, WHO's regional director for Europe, said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n \"We put in place robust surveillance; we thoroughly investigated new cases contacts; and we provided sound public health advice... Learning from our success, we urged governments and health authorities to sustain those measures \u2013 to help eliminate mpox from Europe.<\/p>\n \"But through a lack of commitment and a lack of resources we failed to go the last mile,\" Kluge said, adding that Europe should refocus on surveillance and diagnostics given the new emergency related to mpox clade I.<\/p>\n There is also a need for Europe \"to act in solidarity\" with the African region, he said, pointing out, however, that mpox is not the new COVID-19.<\/p>\n Sweden reported<\/strong><\/a> its first case of the new strain of mpox that is circulating in the DRC and is thought to be more transmissible.<\/p>\n The Swedish public health agency said, however, that the imported case \"does not affect the risk to the general 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EMERGENCY","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"WHO declares Africa's mpox outbreak a global health emergency as new strain spreads","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"WHO declares mpox outbreak a global health emergency","titleListing2":"WHO declares Africa\u2019s mpox outbreak a global health emergency as new strain spreads","leadin":"The WHO and Africa CDC declared emergencies over the mpox outbreak, as European authorities plan to send more than 175,000 vaccines to the region.","summary":"The WHO and Africa CDC declared emergencies over the mpox outbreak, as European authorities plan to send more than 175,000 vaccines to the region.","keySentence":"","url":"who-declares-africas-mpox-outbreak-a-global-health-emergency-as-new-strain-spreads","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2024\/08\/14\/who-declares-africas-mpox-outbreak-a-global-health-emergency-as-new-strain-spreads","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The mpox outbreak ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is now a global health emergency, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\n\"The detection and rapid spread of a new Clade of mpox in eastern DRC, its detection in neighbouring countries that had not previously reported mpox, and the potential for further spread within Africa and beyond is very worrying,\" WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday after announcing that the mpox outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), the United Nations\u2019 health agency\u2019s highest alarm.\n\nThe WHO said it needs $15 million (\u20ac13.6 million) to support Africa\u2019s mpox response, and that it has already released $1.45 million (\u20ac1.32 million) from its emergency reserves.\u00a0\n\nAdhanom Ghebreyesus said the group plans to allocate more funding \"in the coming days\".\n\n\"It's clear that a coordinated international response is essential to stop these outbreaks and save lives,\" he said.\n\nNew mpox strain spreading\n\nMpox has been endemic in West and Central Africa for decades, but the DRC is now the epicentre of a dangerous new strain that emerged last year and is spreading through sexual and close personal contact.\u00a0\n\nThe strain is an offshoot of the Clade I virus, which has a case fatality rate of about 10 per cent, and has health authorities worried because cases are rising quickly.\n\nMeanwhile, South Africa and C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire are also grappling with cases of another mpox strain.\n\nMore than 14,000 mpox cases and 524 deaths have been reported in at least 13 African countries in 2024, including Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda, which reported their first cases of the new strain in recent weeks.\n\nOfficials believe the tally is an undercount due to the lack of testing in the region.\n\nThe WHO decision came one day after the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared that mpox is a continental public health emergency. It\u2019s the first time the African Union\u2019s health agency has made a crisis declaration since it was founded in 2017.\n\n\"Mpox has now crossed borders, affecting thousands across our continent, families have been torn apart, and the pain and suffering have touched every corner of our continent,\" Jean Kaseya, head of the Africa CDC, told reporters on Tuesday.\n\nThe emergency decisions \"can unlock the capability of countermeasures\" such as increased cross-border disease surveillance, diagnostic testing, personnel, and vaccines, Nicaise Ndembi, a senior advisor to the Africa CDC who is working on the mpox response from the DRC, told Euronews Health.\n\nInfectious disease experts have been warning for months that the DRC\u2019s mpox outbreak could become a broader health crisis without more access to diagnostic testing, vaccines, and treatments.\u00a0\n\nWith a fragmented public health infrastructure and little manufacturing capacity on the continent, most African countries have been reliant on donations \u2013 fueling concerns that the health inequities of the COVID-19 pandemic will be repeated.\n\nEurope to send mpox vaccines\n\nIn response to the mpox outbreak, the European Commission\u2019s pandemic preparedness group said it will send more than 175,000 vaccines to the Africa CDC for distribution.\u00a0\n\nDanish drugmaker Bavarian Nordic will also donate 40,000 shots on top of 15,000 already pledged.\n\n\"Preparedness and response to health threats is a global endeavour which we are determined to pursue collectively and with solidarity across borders,\" Stella Kyriakides, the European commissioner for health and food safety, said in a statement.\n\nThe donated shots will be enough to immunise about 115,000 people, given each vaccination requires two doses, Ndembi said.\u00a0\n\nThe Africa CDC, which estimates it will need at least 2 million vaccines, will dole out the shots based on countries\u2019 population size, how hard they\u2019ve been hit by mpox, and the risk levels for sub-groups within the countries, he said.\n\nPeople with compromised immune systems due to an advanced HIV infection, for example, are at higher risk of serious illness or death if they get mpox.\n\nPregnant women and children are also at higher risk. While some people have no symptoms, mpox can cause fever, fatigue, and a rash that turns into painful skin lesions.\n\n\"The shots are not going to be enough for all,\" Ndembi said. \"There\u2019s going to be a level of prioritisation\".\n\nThe WHO called on other countries and international groups to donate shots from their own stockpiles to tackle the shortfall.\n\nNdembi expects vaccinations to begin in the coming weeks, though the bloc still has to work out logistical hurdles. For example, only two African countries have authorised mpox shots so far, and some don\u2019t have sufficient cold-chain storage to keep the doses safe while on the road.\n\nMpox now a global concern\n\nAfrican and European health authorities are also working together to expand the region\u2019s access to mpox testing and sequencing, which will help authorities track the virus and tweak their medical interventions, if needed.\u00a0\n\nThe European Commission expects to invest \u20ac3.5 million toward the effort this autumn.\n\nA Commission spokesperson declined to provide Euronews Health with more details about its plans.\n\nThis is the second time in two years that mpox has posed a global health threat.\n\nThe WHO declared a PHEIC over mpox in July 2022, when infections, mainly among gay and bisexual men, were appearing worldwide.\u00a0\n\nHealth authorities in Europe and North America responded with vaccines, treatments, and public health messaging targeted at high-risk communities.\n\nBy the time the WHO\u2019s emergency declaration ended in May 2023, about 87,000 mpox cases had been reported in 118 countries. The virus is still circulating at low levels in Europe.\n\nThe 2022-2023 global outbreak was tied to the Clade II virus, which is far less deadly than the Clade I viruses in Africa that are now causing international concern.\n\n","htmlText":" The mpox outbreak ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is now a global health emergency, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n \"The detection and rapid spread of a new Clade of mpox in eastern DRC, its detection in neighbouring countries that had not previously reported mpox, and the potential for further spread within Africa and beyond is very worrying,\" WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday after announcing that the mpox outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), the United Nations\u2019 health agency\u2019s highest alarm.<\/p>\n The WHO said it needs $15 million (\u20ac13.6 million) to support Africa\u2019s mpox response, and that it has already released $1.45 million (\u20ac1.32 million) from its emergency reserves.\u00a0<\/p>\n Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the group plans<\/strong><\/a> to allocate more funding \"in the coming days\".<\/p>\n \"It's clear that a coordinated international response is essential to stop these outbreaks and save lives,\" he said.<\/p>\n Mpox has been endemic in West and Central Africa for decades, but the DRC is now the epicentre of a dangerous new strain that emerged last year and is spreading through sexual and close personal contact.\u00a0<\/p>\n The strain is an offshoot of the Clade I virus, which has a case fatality rate of about 10 per cent, and has health authorities worried because cases are rising quickly.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, South Africa and C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire are also grappling with cases of another mpox strain.<\/p>\n More than 14,000 mpox cases and 524 deaths have been reported in at least 13 African countries<\/strong><\/a> in 2024, including Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda, which reported their first cases of the new strain in recent weeks<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Officials believe the tally is an undercount due to the lack of testing in the region.<\/p>\n The WHO decision came one day after the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared that mpox<\/strong><\/a> is a continental public health emergency. It\u2019s the first time the African Union\u2019s health agency has made a crisis declaration since it was founded in 2017.<\/p>\n \"Mpox has now crossed borders, affecting thousands across our continent, families have been torn apart, and the pain and suffering have touched every corner of our continent,\" Jean Kaseya, head of the Africa CDC, told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n The emergency decisions \"can unlock the capability of countermeasures\" such as increased cross-border disease surveillance, diagnostic testing, personnel, and vaccines, Nicaise Ndembi, a senior advisor to the Africa CDC who is working on the mpox response from the DRC, told Euronews Health.<\/p>\n Infectious disease experts have been warning for months<\/strong><\/a> that the DRC\u2019s mpox outbreak could become a broader health crisis without more access to diagnostic testing, vaccines, and treatments.\u00a0<\/p>\n With a fragmented public health infrastructure and little manufacturing capacity on the continent, most African countries have been reliant on donations \u2013 fueling concerns that the health inequities of the COVID-19 pandemic will be repeated.<\/p>\n In response to the mpox outbreak, the European Commission\u2019s pandemic preparedness group said it will send more than 175,000 vaccines to the Africa CDC for distribution.\u00a0<\/p>\n Danish drugmaker Bavarian Nordic will also donate 40,000 shots on top of 15,000 already pledged.<\/p>\n \"Preparedness and response to health threats is a global endeavour which we are determined to pursue collectively and with solidarity across borders,\" Stella Kyriakides, the European commissioner for health and food safety, said in a statement.<\/p>\n The donated shots will be enough to immunise about 115,000 people, given each vaccination requires two doses, Ndembi said.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Africa CDC, which estimates it will need at least 2 million vaccines, will dole out the shots based on countries\u2019 population size, how hard they\u2019ve been hit by mpox, and the risk levels for sub-groups within the countries, he said.<\/p>\n People with compromised immune systems due to an advanced HIV infection<\/strong><\/a>, for example, are at higher risk of serious illness or death if they get mpox.<\/p>\n Pregnant women and children are also at higher risk. While some people have no symptoms, mpox can cause fever, fatigue, and a rash that turns into painful skin lesions.<\/p>\n \"The shots are not going to be enough for all,\" Ndembi said. \"There\u2019s going to be a level of prioritisation\".<\/p>\n The WHO called on other countries and international groups to donate shots from their own stockpiles to tackle the shortfall.<\/p>\n Ndembi expects vaccinations to begin in the coming weeks, though the bloc still has to work out logistical hurdles. For example, only two African countries have authorised mpox shots so far, and some don\u2019t have sufficient cold-chain storage to keep the doses safe while on the road.<\/p>\n African and European health authorities are also working together to expand the region\u2019s access to mpox testing and sequencing, which will help authorities track the virus and tweak their medical interventions, if needed.\u00a0<\/p>\n The European Commission expects to invest \u20ac3.5 million toward the effort this autumn.<\/p>\n A Commission spokesperson declined to provide Euronews Health with more details about its plans.<\/p>\n This is the second time in two years that mpox has posed a global health threat.<\/p>\n The WHO declared a PHEIC over mpox in July 2022, when infections, mainly among gay and bisexual men, were appearing worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n Health authorities in Europe and North America responded with vaccines, treatments, and public health messaging targeted at high-risk communities.<\/p>\n By the time the WHO\u2019s emergency declaration ended in May 2023, about 87,000 mpox cases had been reported in 118 countries. The virus is still circulating at low levels in Europe.<\/p>\n The 2022-2023 global outbreak was tied to the Clade II virus, which is far less deadly than the Clade I viruses in Africa that are now causing international concern.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1723640501,"updatedAt":1723706103,"publishedAt":1723659209,"firstPublishedAt":1723659209,"lastPublishedAt":1723705796,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/53\/38\/62\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d224813a-09b8-58e6-a10c-a5ad65530354-8533862.jpg","altText":"(Jeenah Moon\/AP Photo)","caption":"(Jeenah Moon\/AP Photo)","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"(Jeenah Moon\/AP Photo)","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":3000,"height":2001},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/53\/38\/62\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d224813a-09b8-58e6-a10c-a5ad65530354-8533862.jpg","altText":"(Jeenah Moon\/AP Photo)","caption":"(Jeenah Moon\/AP 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GLOBAL THREAT","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Health authorities are running out of time to control a new mpox strain in the DRC","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"New mpox strain could become global health threat, experts warn","titleListing2":"Health authorities are running out of time to control a new mpox strain in the DRC","leadin":"Lack of access to vaccines, stigma, and a fast-moving new variant have hindered the DRC\u2019s mpox response.","summary":"Lack of access to vaccines, stigma, and a fast-moving new variant have hindered the DRC\u2019s mpox response.","keySentence":"","url":"health-authorities-are-running-out-of-time-to-control-a-new-mpox-strain-in-the-drc","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2024\/07\/03\/health-authorities-are-running-out-of-time-to-control-a-new-mpox-strain-in-the-drc","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A new strain of mpox that emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could become an international health threat if it isn\u2019t contained soon \u2013 and while lessons from recent viral outbreaks offer a path forward, it\u2019s unclear whether authorities will act quickly enough to rein in the virus.\n\nThe DRC has been grappling with a major outbreak of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, since September 2023.\n\nBut it has reached a crisis level recently because the lethal new strain is spreading without sexual contact and may be evading diagnostic tests. Cases are also reaching record highs, and vaccines are not widely accessible.\n\nAbout 9,600 suspected mpox cases have been reported in eight African countries this year, and more than 400 people have died. Children under 15 have accounted for most of the new infections and deaths in 2024.\n\nNearly all of the cases so far have been in the DRC, but health officials say the new strain may already have spread beyond its borders, and that overall cases are likely underreported due to spotty testing and surveillance.\n\nWithout mitigation measures, mpox could soon cause more illnesses and deaths, and spill beyond Central Africa.\n\n\u201cThere's every likelihood that the virus may be on the move,\u201d Dr Rosamund Lewis, the World Health Organization (WHO)\u2019s technical lead and emergency manager for mpox, told Euronews Health.\n\nMpox became a global crisis in 2022 when cases broke out among gay and bisexual men in Europe and North America.\n\nThis marked the first time that sustained transmission was identified outside of West or Central Africa, where the virus has been endemic for decades in some countries.\n\nMpox has now been detected in 116 countries. Since 2022, more than 27,000 cases have been confirmed in Europe, where the virus continues to spread among men who have sex with men.\n\nWhile some people have no symptoms, mpox can cause fever, fatigue, and a rash that turns into painful skin lesions, and in extreme cases, it can lead to death. It\u2019s particularly dangerous for children, pregnant women, and people with compromised immune systems due to an advanced HIV infection.\n\n\u2018Risk for the rest of the globe\u2019\n\nThe strain that caused the global outbreak in 2022 is called Clade II, which is typically found in West Africa and is far less deadly than Clade I, which is common in the DRC and has a case fatality rate of about 10 per cent.\n\nThe concerning new strain, an offshoot of Clade I, first emerged last year among miners and sex workers in the eastern DRC town of Kamituga.\n\nRecently, the new strain has been found in internally displaced camps, Lewis said. It is spreading through close personal contact, not just through sex, meaning it affects a much wider group of people, making it much harder to track and contain.\n\nResearchers say the new strain has \u201cpandemic potential\u201d.\n\n\u201cIf this outbreak is not controlled, it can definitely pose a risk for the rest of the globe,\u201d Nicaise Ndembi, a senior advisor to the director general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, told Euronews Health.\n\nIn 2022, health authorities got the global outbreak under control through targeted distribution of vaccines and antiviral treatments, as well as effective health messaging to at-risk communities that helped them make decisions that slowed the spread.\n\nBy February 2023, nearly 337,000 vaccine doses had been administered in the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.\n\nBut there have been barriers to this approach in the DRC and broader region, given the stigma associated with mpox and the lack of access to vaccines and treatments.\n\nThere are three mpox vaccines available globally, but the DRC just granted emergency authorisation to use two of them last week. The country has a weak system for approving medical products and the WHO doesn\u2019t recognise the DRC\u2019s medicines regulator as a \u201cstringent regulatory agency\u201d.\u00a0\n\nDr Nelson Aghogho Evaborhene, a vaccinologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, added that some countries lack the \u201ctechnical and financial resources\u201d needed to evaluate medicines, instead relying on WHO, other global health groups, and other countries\u2019 regulators to determine vaccine safety and efficacy.\n\nDomestic vaccine manufacturing is also almost nonexistent meaning the DRC, and indeed much of the region, are reliant on donated doses from other countries.\n\nThat prompted officials and researchers to warn that the public health response to mpox reflects a failure to heed lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and the earlier mpox outbreak, when wealthier nations stockpiled vaccines for their own citizens.\n\n\u201cThere was a huge disparity for antivirals and for vaccines,\u201d Evaborhene said.\n\nIt\u2019s also unclear how effective the existing vaccines are against the new mpox strain, which appears to be evading diagnostic tests. Meanwhile, clinical trials are underway to test how well the vaccines work to protect children.\n\nNeed for public health infrastructure in Africa\n\nNdembi said more research is needed, but that given the emergency situation, African officials should prioritise getting the existing vaccines out quickly in countries with mpox transmission.\n\nWith immunisations not yet widely available, Lewis said better disease surveillance, targeted public health messaging, and clinical care for infected patients would help get the outbreak in check.\n\nShe also said mpox testing and treatment should be incorporated into sexual health services because it can look like herpes or syphilis.\n\n\u201cIf you\u2019re talking about an adult who has acquired mpox through sexual transmission, then that person should have an HIV test,\u201d Lewis said.\n\nWhile HIV isn\u2019t a risk factor for mpox, people with HIV are at higher risk of severe illness and death from mpox.\n\nNdembi said the current outbreak underscores the need for a strengthened, centralised public health infrastructure in Africa, as well as health workforce development, increased regional vaccine manufacturing, more domestic funding for health security, and greater collaboration with global health organisations and other countries.\n\nThe Africa CDC proposed this roadmap, called the New Public Health Order, in 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed staggering international health inequalities.\n\nBut it has been sluggish to get off the ground, and Ndembi said the continent\u2019s medical regulatory pathways remain \u201cfragmented\u201d.\n\n\u201cWe learned the hard way during COVID, and we came to realise we need to reshape the global health architecture,\u201d Ndembi said. As those efforts slowly ramp up, \u201cthe immediate solution here is going to be ensuring that we have access to the biomedical interventions\u201d for mpox.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s extremely important at this particular juncture,\u201d Ndembi said.\n\n","htmlText":" A new strain of mpox that emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could become an international health threat if it isn\u2019t contained soon \u2013 and while lessons from recent viral outbreaks offer a path forward, it\u2019s unclear whether authorities will act quickly enough to rein in the virus.<\/p>\n The DRC has been grappling with a major outbreak of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, since September 2023<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n But it has reached a crisis level recently because the lethal new strain is spreading without sexual contact and may be evading diagnostic tests. Cases are also reaching record highs, and vaccines are not widely accessible.<\/p>\n About 9,600 suspected mpox cases have been reported<\/strong><\/a> in eight African countries this year, and more than 400 people have died. Children under 15 have accounted for most of the new infections and deaths in 2024.<\/p>\n Nearly all of the cases so far have been in the DRC, but health officials say the new strain may already have spread beyond its borders, and that overall cases are likely underreported due to spotty testing and surveillance.<\/p>\n Without mitigation measures, mpox could soon cause more illnesses and deaths, and spill beyond Central Africa.<\/p>\n \u201cThere's every likelihood that the virus may be on the move,\u201d Dr Rosamund Lewis, the World Health Organization (WHO)\u2019s technical lead and emergency manager for mpox, told Euronews Health.<\/p>\n Mpox became a global crisis in 2022 when cases broke out among gay and bisexual men in Europe and North America.<\/p>\n This marked the first time that sustained transmission was identified<\/strong><\/a> outside of West or Central Africa, where the virus has been endemic for decades in some countries.<\/p>\n Mpox has now been detected in 116 countries. Since 2022, more than 27,000 cases<\/strong><\/a> have been confirmed in Europe, where the virus continues to spread among men who have sex with men.<\/p>\n While some people have no symptoms, mpox can cause fever, fatigue, and a rash that turns into painful skin lesions, and in extreme cases, it can lead to death. It\u2019s particularly dangerous<\/strong><\/a> for children, pregnant women, and people with compromised immune systems due to an advanced HIV infection.<\/p>\n The strain that caused the global outbreak in 2022 is called Clade II, which is typically found in West Africa and is far less deadly than Clade I, which is common in the DRC and has a case fatality rate of about 10 per cent.<\/p>\n The concerning new strain, an offshoot of Clade I, first emerged last year among miners and sex workers<\/strong><\/a> in the eastern DRC town of Kamituga.<\/p>\n Recently, the new strain has been found in internally displaced camps, Lewis said. It is spreading through close personal contact, not just through sex, meaning it affects a much wider group of people, making it much harder to track and contain.<\/p>\n Researchers say the new strain<\/strong><\/a> has \u201cpandemic potential\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIf this outbreak is not controlled, it can definitely pose a risk for the rest of the globe,\u201d Nicaise Ndembi, a senior advisor to the director general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, told Euronews Health.<\/p>\n In 2022, health authorities got the global outbreak under control through targeted distribution of vaccines and antiviral treatments, as well as effective health messaging to at-risk communities that helped them make decisions that slowed the spread.<\/p>\n By February 2023<\/strong><\/a>, nearly 337,000 vaccine doses had been administered in the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.<\/p>\n But there have been barriers to this approach in the DRC and broader region, given the stigma associated with mpox and the lack of access to vaccines and treatments.<\/p>\n There are three mpox vaccines available globally, but the DRC just granted emergency authorisation to use two of them last week.<\/strong><\/a> The country has a weak system for approving medical products and the WHO doesn\u2019t recognise the DRC\u2019s medicines regulator<\/strong><\/a> as a \u201cstringent regulatory agency\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dr Nelson Aghogho Evaborhene, a vaccinologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, added that some countries lack the \u201ctechnical and financial resources\u201d needed to evaluate medicines, instead relying on WHO, other global health groups, and other countries\u2019 regulators to determine vaccine safety and efficacy.<\/p>\n Domestic vaccine manufacturing is also almost nonexistent meaning the DRC, and indeed much of the region, are reliant on donated doses<\/strong><\/a> from other countries.<\/p>\n That prompted officials and researchers to warn that the public health response to mpox reflects a failure to heed lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and the earlier mpox outbreak, when wealthier nations stockpiled vaccines for their own citizens.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was a huge disparity for antivirals and for vaccines,\u201d Evaborhene said.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also unclear how effective the existing vaccines are against the new mpox strain, which appears to be evading diagnostic tests. Meanwhile, clinical trials<\/strong><\/a> are underway to test how well the vaccines work to protect children.<\/p>\n Ndembi said more research is needed, but that given the emergency situation, African officials should prioritise getting the existing vaccines out quickly in countries with mpox transmission.<\/p>\n With immunisations not yet widely available, Lewis said better disease surveillance, targeted public health messaging, and clinical care for infected patients would help get the outbreak in check.<\/p>\n She also said mpox testing and treatment should be incorporated into sexual health services because it can look like herpes or syphilis.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you\u2019re talking about an adult who has acquired mpox through sexual transmission, then that person should have an HIV test,\u201d Lewis said.<\/p>\n While HIV isn\u2019t a risk factor for mpox, people with HIV are at higher risk of severe illness and death from mpox.<\/p>\n\n
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