Here is the latest, on it all -- but both diagnostic kits and bulk vaccine pallets (into the middle millions!) are still urgently needed in all of sub-Saharan Africa, as that is where it is most likely to spread at this point:
. . .India on Monday reported its first confirmed case of "travel-related" Mpox, or monkeypox, in a young male who tested positive for a strain from western Africa. The patient is in stable condition, the government has said, and is without systemic illness or comorbidities, having already been isolated over the weekend on suspicion of carrying the virus. . . .
[T]o ensure information about Mpox and its common symptoms is available to the public, the government referred to the latest WHO update, which indicates that a majority of patients are men aged 18 to 44, and present with rash (systemic or genital) followed by fever.
And the most commonly reported mode of transmission, the government said, is sexual contact, followed by person-to-person non-sexual contact.
Last month the who declared Mpox a PHEIC, or Public Health Emergency of International Concern, based on the risk of spread of the current outbreak from beyond Africa, where a surge in cases has been reported from the Democratic Republic of Congo and other nations like Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda. . . .
Now you know -- be careful out there. Onward. Buffs were highly-disappointing in an age-old rivalry on Saturday; but the Bears did get past the Titans, on a lovely fall day in the Chi. Onward.
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