On Tuesday, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention declared a public health emergency of continental concern for the first time ever.
World Health Organizationof continental concern for the first time ever, and on Wednesday, a WHO-led panel meets to decide if it represents a global threat.
“It is important to declare an emergency because the disease is spreading,” said Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, head of Congo’s Institut National pour la Recherche Biomedicale . He said he hoped any declaration would help provide more funding for surveillance as well as supporting access to vaccines in Congo.
Africa CDC said last week it had been granted $10.4 million in emergency funding from the Africa Union for its mpox response, and its director general Jean Kaseya said on Tuesday there was a clear plan to secure 3 million doses of vaccine this year, without elaborating further.However, sources involved in planning a vaccination roll-out in Congo said only 65,000 doses were likely to be available in the short-term, and campaigns were unlikely to begin before October at the earliest.
Ivory Coast and South Africa are also experiencing outbreaks linked to a different strain of the virus, which spread globally in 2022, largely among men who have sex with men. This outbreak prompted WHO to declare a global emergency before ending it 10 months later.
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