Africa's public health body is seeing a rapid increase in mpox cases, with almost 4,000 reported on the continent in the last week.
People sit at the Don Bosco refugee camp as Red Cross officials create awareness around mpox in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2023. with nearly 4,000 reported in the past week, the continent's public health body said Tuesday as it repeated a plea for long-awaited vaccines that were due to arrive this week but will now be delayed.
At the earliest, the first batch of vaccine doses promised to Africa will arrive on Sept. 1 after delays caused by documentation and emergency authorization issues, Kaseya said. "It is just a matter of now waiting on the U.S. government on the transfer of those vaccines,” Ngongo said. The Africa CDC said it is working on a unified response plan for the outbreaks which will be presented to African heads of state for consideration at a meeting in September.
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