New mpox strain changing fast; African scientists are ‘working blind’ to respond

Avoid sex workers and unprotected homosexual sexual activities seems the best way to not catch this in the region.

Another pandemic lock down again?

say the virus is changing faster than expected

So the current vaccine is already obsolete.

Well, that looks nasty….

Strange how it has reappear just before the USA election.

Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, has been a public health problem in parts of Africa since 1970, but received little global attention until it surged internationally in 2022, prompting the World Health Organization to declare a global health emergency. That declaration ended 10 months later.

A new strain of the virus, known as clade Ib, has the world's attention again after the WHO declared a new health emergency.

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Congo has had more than 18,000 suspected clade I and clade Ib mpox cases and 615 deaths this year, according to the WHO. There have also been 222 confirmed clade Ib cases in four African countries in the last month, plus a case each in Sweden and Thailand in people with a travel history in Africa.

"I worry that in Africa, we are working blindly," said Dr. Dimie Ogoina

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Of course it received little attention until it started to spread internationally.

Rich nations seems to only pay attention when something starts to affect their people.

Poorer nations are left to fend for themselves which then ends up making the problem worse due to their lack of technology, equipment and money.

"Dr. Dimie Ogoina, an infectious diseases expert at Niger Delta University Hospital in Nigeria who chairs the WHO's mpox emergency committee"

Unfortunately, being part of this committee affects his credibility on the issue.

We need to hear from impartial experts., rather than pharma funded stooges.

Strange how it has reappear just before the USA election.

The world don't turn around the USA, did you know?

Why did they change the name to MPox replacing MonkeyPox? Was it because the latter makes people think of Africa being again source of disease, like AIDS? Was it to avoid maligning the image of monkeys? Just wondering.

More research is urgently needed, but three teams tracking mpox outbreaks in Africa say they cannot even access chemicals needed for diagnostic tests.

Many African laboratories cannot get the supplies they need, said Dr. Emmanuel Nakoune, an mpox expert at the Institut Pasteur in Bangui, Central African Republic, which also has clade Ia cases.

So why hasn't the WHO not arranged for the supply of chemicals and other necessary supplies?

Wasabi: Science don't lie but humans do and what are scientists ? The reality is when you have a thug standover extortionist as major world power, well yes, the world does evolves around the USA which I am sad to point it out you. We all have short memories. After 11/09 Bush issue and statement that I will never forget. He stated If you not with the USA then you are with the Axis of evil. There no position of neutrality and that not democratic coming from country that pride itself on freedom and democracy. the USA is a oligarchy cosplaying a Democracy and has been since the early 50,s

Been around for decades?

Nothing to worry about then…

The world don't turn around the USA, did you know?

You really believe that?

falseflagsteve

Even children are contracting the virus in the regions affected. Seems more serious than an STD among the homosexual population.

John-San Not everything is about your political views.

Avoid sex workers and unprotected homosexual sexual activities seems the best way to not catch this in the region.

Unless you think children are using sex services you could not be more wrong.

Another pandemic lock down again?

Which expert have said this is a necessary measure? none?

So the current vaccine is already obsolete.

Invalid assumption born from lack of understanding of basics about viral infections, viruses change all the time, that does not automatically make vaccines obsolete, Some RNA viruses like Yellow Fever or Japanese encephalitis change every season and that has not made vaccines decades old less useful.

Strange how it has reappear just before the USA election.

Nothing strange, this has been predicted years in advance thanks to the epidemiological surveillance of the disease, pretending it just appeared magically is what is strange.

Unfortunately, being part of this committee affects his credibility on the issue.

Being part of a committee specifically dealing with this situation? that is nonsense, what of his declarations have been contradicted by other experts?

Why did they change the name to MPox replacing MonkeyPox? 

Because people were using the name in racist/discriminatory propaganda, and since monkeys are not even the main vector for introduction of the disease to humans there was no meaning in keeping the name.

So why hasn't the WHO not arranged for the supply of chemicals and other necessary supplies?

Because it has no access to infinite resources to deal with all and every situation affecting public health in the world? It has been more than a decade that the WHO was stripped from a lot of its political power, and efforts to make it more effective have been unsuccessful thanks to the alliance of big pharmaceutical companies (that would have their profits drop) and antiscientific propaganda groups, that work together to misrepresent this efforts as negative.

Been around for decades?

Nothing to worry about then…

The disease has not behaved this way for decades, the experts say there are plenty of reasons to worry (and do something) about it, they are much more reliable than nameless people on the internet saying otherwise. Ebola has been affecting humans for decades as well, would you think there is nothing to worry if the same number of cases and affected countries happened?

Garth: Mate it about facts. Humans lie is a fact not a view. The USA is an oligarchy is a fact not a view. The Who is a Allie to the political left, fact not a view. The Democrats and Republicans is own and paid for by zionist corporations. Fact not a view.

falseflagsteve

Avoid sex workers and unprotected homosexual sexual activities seems the best way to not catch this in the region.

70% of the victims are children.

wallaceToday  10:56 am JST

falseflagsteve

Avoid sex workers and unprotected homosexual sexual activities seems the best way to not catch this in the region.

70% of the victims are children.

Don't bamboozle him with facts. Let him just bask in his homophobic ignorance.

The Who is a Allie to the political left, fact not a view. 

Rock bands' affiliations are irrelevant. For scientific authorities like the WHO the most important part is if their conclusions and recommendations are representative of the scientific consensus or not, if they are then they have value and people should listen to them.

Now, if the political right is systematically antiscientific then that would be what make the members of that group perceive objective scientific conclusions as contrary to their interests and therefore qualify the scientific institutions as "left" simply because they oppose what they say.

John-San

Who is a Allie to the political left, fact not a view.

There you go. Showing your true colors and making everything about your right vs left views.

So tiring.

Wallace

Sorry but that is untrue and as can be seen two Clades are now considered sexually transmitted diseases as stated in the article.

The mutated versions, clade Ib and IIb, can now essentially be considered a sexually transmitted disease, said Dr. Salim Abdool Karim, a South African epidemiologist and chair of the Africa CDC’s mpox advisory committee. Most of the mutated clade Ib cases are among adults, driven at first by an epidemic among female sex workers in South Kivu, Congo.

Also, the majority of cases and deaths in Africa by Monkeypox in 2024 have been in adults.

ffs

Out of a total of 18,910 cases in 2024, 94% — or 17,794 — were in Congo, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, with 535 of the 541 deaths reported last week. Nearly 70% of mpox infections in Congo are in children under 15.

https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/life-health/health/ap-mpox-outbreaks-in-africa-result-from-neglect-and-global-communitys-inability-to-stop-epidemics/#:~:text=Out%20of%20a%20total%20of,are%20in%20children%20under%2015.

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The most recent data shows that about two-thirds of infections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – which currently has about 90% of reported cases - are in people under the age of 15 with more than 321 children dying. 

https://www.savethechildren.net/news/mpox-five-ways-children-are-more-risk

Sorry but that is untrue and as can be seen two Clades are now considered sexually transmitted diseases as stated in the article.

Every report clearly says that the disease is importantly affecting children. The other part where you are mistaken is thinking that a disease being considered also transmitted sexually means it is only transmitted sexually, which is not the case.

Also, the majority of cases and deaths in Africa by Monkeypox in 2024 have been in adults.

All reports with age stratification show a heavy involvement of children, that alone would let anybody understand that focusing on sexual transmission as if it was the only way to get the disease is obviously invalid.

This is why the WHO recommendations make it clear close contact is more than enough for the disease to be transmitted, without any requirement for the contact to be sexual.

MPXV transmits between humans through close contact with lesions, body fluids, infectious respiratory particles or contaminated materials

Avoid sex workers and unprotected homosexual sexual activities seems the best way to not catch this in the region.

-Unless you think children are using sex services you could not be more wrong.

Come on now, virus, we all know about the breakout that happened in the UK and the key demographic behind it.

To answer someone's question, it was rebranded as MPOX, because, as with most leftist run organizations, someone deemed the term "monkeypox" to be offensive and/or racist, because it's about being PC, right? Not about speaking facts about the actual disease and how it's spreading.

Gotta say, as a heterosexual male in Japan who doesn't shake hands (as bowing is the custom) I'm not too worried that it'll ever be an issue for me here in Japan.

Come on now, virus, we all know about the breakout that happened in the UK and the key demographic behind it.

Is the outbreak on the UK predominantly affecting children and the current problem in Africa? because if not this is completely irrelevant.

To answer someone's question, it was rebranded as MPOX, because, as with most leftist run organizations, someone deemed the term "monkeypox" to be offensive and/or racist, because it's about being PC, right?

The mistaken term was being used to discriminate people by bad actors, and since the disease is mostly unrelated to monkeys there was no reason to keep it taking into account the inappropiate use it was having.

Gotta say, as a heterosexual male in Japan who doesn't shake hands (as bowing is the custom) I'm not too worried that it'll ever be an issue for me here in Japan.

The experts are clearly saying that close contact of many different kinds is enough to transmit the disease, there is even evidence pointing out that it can be transmitted by taking or breathing close to an infected person, if the outbreak is not controlled and the disease expands globally you are definetely at risk as long as you have close contact (or breath) close to other people.