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On 14 August 2024, the WHO Director-General determined that the upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a growing number of countries in Africa constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)
The clade Ib MPXV outbreak, which began in September 2023 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is having an increasing number of cases in the country and also expanding to neighbouring countries. Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda have each reported their first mpox cases.

this clade has been spreading rapidly among adults through close physical contact, including sexual contact identified within networks of sex workers and their clients. As the virus spreads further, the affected groups are changing, with the virus also taking hold within households and other settings.

Transmission
● is by direct skin-to-skin contact from person to person
● from infected animals to people
● from contaminated items eg bedding n clothes
● from pregnant women to their unborn children

Symptoms
● flu like
● skin rash starting from macules to papules, then pustules which then crust n scab . Painful n itchy
● lymphadenopathy

Treatment
● Symptomatic from relief of pain , fever etc
● managing skin lesions
● preventing complications

Prevention
● by vaccination
● safe sex
● avoidance of multiple partners
● saying no to homosexuality
● frequent hand washing

https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/sym...

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sh...

https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/monke...

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