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The Philippines has detected a new case of the mpox virus in the country, the first since December last year, its health department said on Monday, adding it was awaiting test results before being ...
The Philippines was among the countries which reported cases during the 2022–2023 global outbreak of human mpox caused by the West African clade of the monkeypox virus.The outbreak was first reported in the Philippines when a suspected case was confirmed on July 28, 2022, according to the Department of Health.
The 2022 mpox outbreak in Asia is a part of the ongoing outbreak of human mpox caused by the West African clade of the monkeypox virus.The outbreak was reported in Asia on 20 May 2022 when Israel reported a suspected case of mpox, which was confirmed on 21 May.
In this new outbreak, while there’s similar infection patterns in Africa, children under 15 make up more than 70% of the cases and 85% of the deaths in Congo, the AP reports.
Phylogenomic characterization of the first monkeypox virus outbreak genome sequences, found the "presumably slow-evolving" DNA virus has evolved roughly 6–12-fold more mutations than one would expect and 15 SNP mutations since the beginning of the outbreak. [49] [50] Recombination has been reported in the natural transmission of monkeypox ...
The World Health Organization said the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation that now qualifies as a global emergency, a declaration Saturday ...
Pierre Somsé, the Minister of Health of the Central African Republic, declared an outbreak of mpox in Bangui, following a period of time when the disease was mostly restricted to rural areas. [6] Somsé said that some families in the country were hiding infected relatives in fear of being stigmatized , thus increasing the risk of transmission ...
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