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Bookmark or Share- Africa intensifies battle against mpox as ‘alarming ... - ScienceThe outbreak in Kamituga, which started in October 2023, involved 250 suspected cases in the first 5 months, and of 108 people with a confirmed infection, 85% had genital lesions and 29% were sex workers, according to the medRxiv preprint. Just over half were women, and only 15% were children.
- Mpox cases in Congo may be stabilizing. Experts say more ... - YahooFILE - 2 year old Emile Miango, who has mpox, lies in a hospital, in Kamituga, South Kivu province, Sept. 4, 2024, which is the epicenter of the world's latest outbreak of the disease in eastern ...
- Sustained human outbreak of a new MPXV clade I lineage in eastern ...The situation in Kamituga mirrors the 2017–2018 outbreak of clade IIb MPXV in Nigeria. Without intervention, this localized outbreak has the potential to spread both nationally and...
- Eurosurveillance | Ongoing mpox outbreak in Kamituga, South Kivu ...Ongoing mpox outbreak in Kamituga, South Kivu province, associated with monkeypox virus of a novel Clade I sub-lineage, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2024.
- Mpox risks spreading in Congo’s crowded mines, refugee campsA strain of the virus — which causes lesions that can result in disfigurement, blindness, and even death — has erupted around the gold-mining town of Kamituga, where about a quarter of a million...
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