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The victims of the disease are mainly located in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ghana. Eleven African countries have been affected this year by monkeypox for a total of 524 confirmed cases and 12 deaths. Yesterday Thursday, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, Regional Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Africa, confirmed six deaths in Nigeria, four in Ghana and two in the Central African Republic. In order to improve the detection rate, 39,000 kits have been distributed to African countries exposed to monkeypox defined by the WHO as “an emerging infectious disease caused by a virus transmitted by infected animals, most often rodents”. . Monkeypox, the source continues, can then spread from person to person, but this type of transmission alone cannot explain an outbreak of the disease.

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