Variant of virus causing concern in Africa, and now detected in Sweden, different to strain seen in State in 2022
director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported “an unprecedented recent increase in the number of mpox cases identified in Africa ”. The WHO has declared that this trend represents “a public health emergency of international concern”.
Ireland’s housing crisis ‘on a different level’ with population growing at nearly four people for every new home builtTrump’s ‘conversation’ with Musk reveals dangers that were not made explicit until nowEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Mpox is an uncommon disease that is caused by infection with a virus that is found in some animal populations in remote parts of central and west Africa and has in the past has caused occasional limited outbreaks in local communities and among travellers. Since December 2022, a large outbreak of mpox has been ongoing in the Democratic Republic of Congo and cases have been seen in neighbouring countries such as Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya and Uganda in recent weeks.
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