In First Three Months Of '25, Africa Has Seen SIX Months' Worth (Of 2024 Mpox Case Levels): Ominous Signs Dept.

CIDRAP has done the analysis -- and the trend is. . . deeply disturbing.

It is all the more troubling, because we are led by luddites who are ignorant of the science behind pandemic abatement -- and have largely defunded it altogether. Damnation. Here's the latest:

. . .Mpox activity continues to fluctuate among different countries in Africa, but as a whole the situation continues to escalate, with the region in the first 3 months of the new year nearly reaching 50% of the cases reported for all of 2024, the head of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said today at the agency’s weekly briefing.

Uganda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) accounted for 95% of the confirmed cases last week, but Africa CDC Director Jean Kaseya, MD, MPH, said the full picture in the DRC is hazy, because test coverage is low, at 18.4%, due to ongoing conflict in the eastern part of the country and problems collecting samples and transporting them to labs owing to foreign aid cuts. . . .

Now you know -- and there are many balls in the air at the moment -- we must keep our eye on all of them. They are all. . . critical. Onward.

नमस्ते