Mutant Mpox strain declared global threat after spread across 13 countries – and Europe may be next
MUTANT mpox has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organisation after its rapid spread to 13 countries.
Scientists at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) sounded the alarm this week as the new virus spreads rapidly across the continent.
Since the start of 2024, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has seen over 13,700 cases and 450 deaths.
The deadlier, more aggressive strain of the virus, formerly known as monkeypox, has now spread across Africa to 12 other countries including Burundi, the Central African Republic (CAR), Kenya, and Rwanda.
The DRC has been battling with its variant, called “clade 1a”, for decades.
This version is more deadly, with a fatality rate of around five per cent in adults and 10 per cent in children, compared to three per cent for its predecessor.
Labelling the outbreak as a global health emergency will push governments to act faster and potentially boost vital medical supplies and aid for the affected regions.
WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned: “In the past month, about 90 cases of clade 1b have been reported in four countries neighbouring the DRC that have not reported mpox before: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.
“But we are not dealing with one outbreak of one clade – we are dealing with several outbreaks of different clades in different countries with different modes of transmission and different levels of risk.
“Stopping these outbreaks will require a tailored and comprehensive response, with communities at the centre, as always.
“In light of the expanding outbreak in east and central Africa, and the potential for further international spread within and outside Africa, I have convened this Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations to advise me on whether the outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern.”
WHO’S labelling of a “public health emergency of international concern” is meant to encourage member countries to begin preparing for the virus.
This could entail the sharing of vaccines and treatments with poorer nations.
Africa CDC head Jean Kaseya warned the disease could spiral out of control if immediate steps were not taken to contain it.
“This declaration is not merely a formality. It is a clarion call to action. It is a recognition that we can no longer afford to be reactive.
“We must be proactive and aggressive in our efforts to contain and eliminate this threat,” he said.
Health chiefs outside Africa will also be keeping track of the situation to assess the risk of the outbreak spreading further.
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48 comments
Conservatives won't take any vax. This pleases me because of what willful ignorance will eventually do to the families they claim to love and care about. I love schadenfreude and Darwinian justice.
Stop flights and stop boats to late again it will be . close british borders now .
L A B
Do not comply. its a lie from the pit of hell. The evil plan is destroyed in Jesus name
Election is coming. So they are planning evil . I declare this evil plan dead in Jesus name
Why do so many diseases come from Africa?
Block all Africa from travel 😮
2 weeks to flatten curve. I double bubble pinky promise cross my poopy little heart, guys.
Mpox is in the UK , reported in Yorkshire since spring 2024. It is spreading gradually to the rest of the world.
Covid didn’t wipe us out so this is there second attack
CDC lost peoples respect. You lost your credential after Covid. BS news.
Kudos to the brilliant scientist who juiced up this strain!
Pure lies and fear propaganda
Bullocks 😂😂 what happened to COVID 😂😂
If Monkeypox was that bad, then no flights would be coming out of africa, saying that the elites will want as many deaths as possible from it, so they'll allow the movement of millions of people like they did with covid.
Get Dr. Fauci on it he will make it worse.
Please inject me again to protect me. 💉🤔
Surprise surprise right in time for the U.S. election.
It's an election year disease, of course
Sorry WHO don't believe anything you say anymore. Or the FDA and pharmaceutical. You only thing they care about is money, not us
Still trying to hit us with some new Pandemic.
Next lockdown is coming
Imagine working at the hotels full of Africans in the UK. Rather you than me
Flatten the curve
AGENDA 666 = LGBTQ = KLAUSE = WEF = HARARI .
AGENDA 666 = LGBTQ = KLAUSE = WEF = HARARI .
AGENDA 666 = LGBTQ = KLAUSE = WEF = HARARI .
meh
Is the Canadian government stopping flights from Africa? Does anyone care about Canadians? Or are you doing nothing like last time?
compulsive liar
It’s allegedly already in US & Canada
Can white people catch this?
Time to invest in masks and save your grandmas
MONKEY Pox is not a danger to most people at all. Only one demographic is at risk.
NATO fascists and terrorists!
Moneypox
THIS MAN SHOULD BE IN JAIL,,,,,,,,,, WAS THE NEW STRAIN GROWN IN A LABORATORY, WILL STARMER STOP ALL FLIGHTS FROM THE COUNTRIES AFFECTED OR WILL HE DO A BORIS JOHNSON AND IGNORE THE WARNINGS…
😷
Ban flights
Well you’ve got a reason to close the borders now then, crack on ! 👍🏻
Why these people act late and please stop explotation of africa
here we go !!!!
Moneypox
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
FOOL ME ONCE SHAME ON YOU
FOOL ME TWICE SHAME ON ME.
We have open boarders and people unchecked coming to England from Africa and now WHO declare a new type of monkeypox so we just have to wait for the dingy carrying the virus
WHATEVER HAPPENS NEXT DO. NOT. COMPLY.
Wasn’t this referred to as monkeypox? If so, this was already around when covid hit and is already in the developed countries.
It will reach Uk in no time
As no border control and they all bound for uk