2024-08-16 17:27:35
A health worker cares for Lucie Habimana, a 13-year-old smallpox patient, at a treatment center in Munigi, eastern Congo, Friday, August 16, 2024.
Two days after the World Health Organization (WHO) activated the highest level of health alert due to a resurgence of measles in Africa, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal resigned on Friday, August 16, announcing that Health system layout “On highest alert”.
Resigned government head held situation update Meet Minister of Health Catherine Vautrin and her representative, Minister Frédéric Valletoux, as the resurgence of mpox (formerly monkeypox) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) prompts the world The World Health Organization declared an international public health emergency on Wednesday.
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Gabriel Attal explains “Information measures and new recommendations” will be set up for people traveling in risk areas and will require health authorities to decide “Update suggestions” Related vaccinations “Target group”.
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and “Donate vaccines to the most affected countries” The decision was also confirmed by the Prime Minister at the request of President Macron, who will issue a new update on the situation on Monday.
On Thursday, Sweden announced the discovery of a case of clade 1b subtype, the same strain that emerged in the Democratic Republic of Congo in September 2023 and is deadlier and more virulent than the clade 2 prevalent in West Africa. On Friday, Asia recorded its first case of MPO in Pakistan.
Mpox is a viral disease that spreads from animals to humans, but can also be spread through close physical contact with an infected person. In France, French public health authorities reported 107 MPOX cases between January 1 and June 30, 2024, according to a report released at the end of July. So far, “Only viruses (…) 2 branches identified and no mortality observed» According to this document, on French territory. “Of the 101 cases for which information was available, 5 were hospitalized due to severe pain, with or without accompanying pathology or complications.”details this announcement.
Of the 80 reported cases, a quarter (24%) had traveled abroad within three weeks before the onset of symptoms (rash, pustules), while the incubation period of the virus ranges from 5 to 21 days.
For severe cases of the disease, Tekovima is available, a drug used to treat infections caused by orthopoxviruses, a member of the variola virus family of which mpox is a member. But most commonly, for patients affected by MPOX clade 2, patients recover spontaneously after two to four weeks.
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