MedPage Today September 4, 2024
— This new surge is different, WHO leader says
Amid a new surge of mpox in Africa, the spread of the more deadly clade I subtype, and a rising number of mpox cases in children, clinicians are struggling to understand this complex and evolving global situation.
In this latest major wave originating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), more than 27,000 suspected mpox cases and over 1,300 deaths have occurred in the DRC, for a case fatality rate of approximately 5%.
This Outbreak Is Different
“What we are witnessing in Africa now is different from the global outbreak in 2022,” Dimie Ogoina, MBBS, chair of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) mpox emergency committee, said in a news conference.
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