PARIS — As fears mount globally about mpox, apparently simple questions such as the danger it poses and differences between variants do not have clear and simple answers.
The World Health Organization in July declared an international health emergency over the spread of mpox, which first appeared in humans around 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo .For decades, the illness long known as 'monkeypox' was restricted to a handful of African countries, with estimates of its mortality rate ranging from one to 10 percent of people infected.
6 percent — would therefore likely be much lower were it not mostly limited to the DRC.Child malnutritionOther factors weighing on the mortality rate include those that make some patients more vulnerable than others.The vast majority of the deaths recorded in the DRC — over 500 out of more than 15,000 mpox cases — have been children, many of whom are affected by malnutrition in the country.
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