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The mpox outbreak in Ghana is a part of the larger outbreak of human mpox caused by the West African clade of the monkeypox virus. As opposed to its West African neighbours, Ghana had no endemic presence of mpox, only experiencing it during the 2022 outbreak. The first 5 cases of mpox in Ghana was detected on June 8, 2022. [1]
Ghana previously recorded cases of mpox in 2022 and 2023. The statement described the patient as a young male, with a fever, rash and body pains. It said 25 contacts have been identified and are ...
During the global outbreak of mpox in 2022, gay and bisexual men made up the vast majority of cases and the virus was mostly spread through close contact, including sex.
Although the risk of the current mpox outbreak spreading to people in the U.S. remains low, experts say, the resurgence of mpox in Africa and spread of clade Ib has raised alarm among scientists.
The WHO declared the recent outbreak of the disease a public health emergency after a new offshoot of the mpox virus, first identified in Democratic Republic of Congo, beg
Five cases in Ghana were also confirmed by the Ghana Health Service. [70] Greece detected its first case in a traveller, who had travelled to Portugal. [ 71 ] On the same day, the total number of mpox infections outside of endemic countries reached 1,000.
An epidemic of a new variant of clade I mpox (formerly known as monkeypox), called clade 1b, [2] began in Central Africa at least as early as September 2023. [3] [4] As of September 2024, more than 29,000 cases have been reported, with over 800 fatalities (~3% fatality rate), [1] nearly all in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [5]
Since 2022, the U.S. has had outbreaks of clade II mpox, mostly among men who have sex with men, but also in some nonbinary and transgender people, according to recent CDC data. Overall, more than ...