This time it is Malawi -- and involves young people -- truly avoidable, with proper resources. We have a working vaccine -- but Trump has hamstrug USAID. Dammit. Here's The UK Guardian on it all:
. . .Malawi’s ministry of health has announced three new cases of mpox in the capital, Lilongwe, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 11 since the country’s first was reported in April.
Malawi is one of 16 countries in Africa reporting mpox outbreaks as health officials battle with vaccine shortages as well as limited testing and hospital capacity.
The Public Health Institute of Malawi said the patients were aged between 17 and 41. “Investigations are under way to establish the possible source of infection and trace contacts,” the department said in a statement last week.
The first cases in Malawi come after US government aid cuts to healthcare, including HIV programmes, badly hit the country and raised fears of an escalation of infectious diseases. HIV medication programmes have been severely depleted by the cuts. . . .
It is candidly a struggle here, to avoid getting discouraged, by the loss of moral vision, in the US -- when looking at our fellow world citizens. But onward, just the same.
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