WHAT IS MPOX?
The illness, previously often called monkeypox, was first detected in people within the DRC in 1970.
There are two subtypes of the virus: clade 1 and clade 2.
The deadlier clade 1 has been endemic within the Congo Basin in central Africa for many years.
The much less extreme clade 2 has turn into endemic in elements of West Africa.
Mpox can unfold human-to-human via sexual or shut bodily contact. Signs embrace fever, muscular aches and huge boil-like pores and skin lesions.
The virus gained worldwide prominence in Might 2022, when a much less lethal pressure referred to as clade 2b unfold around the globe, principally affecting homosexual and bisexual males.
Between January 2022 and June 2024, 208 deaths and greater than 99,000 mpox circumstances had been recorded throughout 116 international locations, in keeping with the WHO.
