Africa’s public health body says it hopes Mpox vaccines will finally arrive on the continent “in another two weeks, tops” after months of seeking doses.
NAIROBI, Kenya - Africa's public health body says it hopesvaccines will finally arrive on the continent “in another two weeks, tops” after months of seeking doses.
The doses will go first to countries with acute need and the largest overall burden, the acting director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ahmed Ogwell, told journalists on Thursday. Congo and Nigeria have had the highest numbers ofas a global emergency amid outbreaks in Europe and North America and appealed to the world to support African countries. But no rich countries shared vaccines or treatments with the African continent even as cases in other regions subsided.
vaccines as a donation from South Korea and would be used first for health workers and people living in the hardest-hit areas., formerly known as monkeypox but renamed last year because of racism concerns, is a rare disease caused by infection with a virus that's in the same family as the one that causes smallpox. It is endemic in parts of Africa, where people have been infected through bites from rodents or small animals, but it was not known to spread easily among people.
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