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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.
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 [update] , more than 29,000 cases have been reported, with over 800 fatalities (~3% fatality rate ), [ 1 ] nearly all in the Democratic Republic of the ...
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.
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In previous outbreaks, 1–3 per cent of people with known infections had died (without treatment). In the 2022–2023 outbreak the rate of death was less than 0.2 percent. Cases in children and immunocompromised people are more likely to be severe. [21] Mpox spreads through close, personal, often skin-to-skin contact.
How to protect yourself from monkeypox In general, experts say most people don’t need to worry about monkeypox as of now. “The threat of monkeypox from this outbreak is low to the general ...