{"id":36089,"date":"2024-08-13T17:05:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T21:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=36089"},"modified":"2024-08-13T17:05:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T21:05:02","slug":"mpox-in-africa-new-strain-declared-a-continental-public-health-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=36089","title":{"rendered":"Mpox in Africa: New strain declared a continental public health emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/7c7f0060-596d-11ef-aebc-6de4d31bf5cd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"160\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Scientists in Africa are alarmed by the speed at which a new strain of mpox is spreading.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0e84jw9qdjo\">Mpox in Africa: New strain declared a continental public health emergency<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Since the beginning of the year, more than 13,700 cases and 450 deaths have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<br>The virus, which can cause lesions across the whole body, has spread to other African countries, including Burundi, the Central African Republic (CAR) Kenya and Rwanda.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sadly, without context these numbers mean nothing.  a quick trip to ourworldindata.org show the context:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/monkeypox-ourworldindata-drc-africa-2022-to-2024-2024-08-13_17-02-33.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/monkeypox-ourworldindata-drc-africa-2022-to-2024-2024-08-13_17-02-33-1024x758.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36092\" width=\"627\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/monkeypox-ourworldindata-drc-africa-2022-to-2024-2024-08-13_17-02-33-1024x758.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/monkeypox-ourworldindata-drc-africa-2022-to-2024-2024-08-13_17-02-33-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/monkeypox-ourworldindata-drc-africa-2022-to-2024-2024-08-13_17-02-33-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/monkeypox-ourworldindata-drc-africa-2022-to-2024-2024-08-13_17-02-33-750x555.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/monkeypox-ourworldindata-drc-africa-2022-to-2024-2024-08-13_17-02-33-1226x907.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/monkeypox-ourworldindata-drc-africa-2022-to-2024-2024-08-13_17-02-33-675x500.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/monkeypox-ourworldindata-drc-africa-2022-to-2024-2024-08-13_17-02-33.jpg 1501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Africa are alarmed by the speed at which a new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[257,908,728,21],"class_list":["post-36089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-africa","tag-drc","tag-monkeypox","tag-uh-oh","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36093,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36089\/revisions\/36093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}