Since 2022 Africa Reports Over 1,500 Monkeypox Cases

Ouma admits that the African continent has not been able to control the disease that is currently also infecting a number of countries in Europe.

“Our position is that vaccination is an important tool and needs to start here in Africa,” Ouma said at a weekly briefing by the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. AFP.

“Here … the burden is greater, the risk is higher, and the geographic spread is also wider,” he said.

“African countries that have reported confirmed cases are Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Morocco, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone,” Ouma continued.

The World Health Organization (WHO) will convene an emergency committee next week to assess whether the monkeypox outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern.

Monkeypox or monkeypox is endemic in parts of Africa. More than 30 countries where the viral disease is not endemic have reported outbreaks this year, mostly in Europe.

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