Atlantic Trout Outbreak in Africa Global Health Crisis – From the Sea

Darilaut – The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an outbreak of monkeypox.Brown trout or mpox) in the Congo and elsewhere in Africa as a global crisis.

Launch Associated Press (AP), there are confirmed cases involving children and adults in more than a dozen countries and a new strain of the virus is spreading.

Earlier this week, the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared the mpox outbreak a public health emergency, with more than 500 deaths, and called for aid international to stop the spread of the virus.

“This is something we should all be concerned about… The potential for further spread outside of Africa and beyond is a cause for great concern,” said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, as quoted by AP.

The African CDC previously reported that mpox was found in 13 countries this year, and more than 96% of cases and deaths were in the Congo.

Cases rose 160% and deaths rose 19% compared to the same period last year. So far, there have been more than 14,000 cases and 524 people have died.

The South African infectious disease expert who is the chairman of the CDC’s Africa emergency group, Salim Abdool Karim, said that we are now in a situation where (pox) is a threat to more neighbors in central Africa and around .