Mpox virus has emerged, causing concern among health experts. This new strain has been described as the "most dangerous yet," due to its increased transmissibility and resistance to current treatments.
Research has shown that this new Mpox strain is spreading rapidly across various regions, leading to a surge in cases and overwhelming healthcare systems. The high mutation rate of the virus has made it difficult for vaccines to keep up, raising questions about the effectiveness of current vaccination efforts.
All countries should be preparing for "this new strain before it spreads to other places, before it is too late," Jean Claude Udahemuka, a researcher at the University of Rwanda studying the outbreak, said.
mpox — previously known as monkeypox — in 2022 spread to more than 110 countries, mostly affecting gay and bisexual men. That was the clade II strain.
Africa since it was first detected in Congo in 1970.
While the global outbreak was largely sexually transmitted, people in Africa normally caught clade I from infected animals, such as when eating bushmeat.
A dangerous new strain of mpox was spreading quickly along the eastern border of the DRC and was "incredibly worrying", scientists warned separately.
A mutated version of the clade I mpox endemic in Congo for decades had fatality rates of around 5 percent in adults and 10 percent in children said biomedical engineer John Claude Udahemuka, who has been working on an outbreak in the hard-to-reach South Kivu province.
One way researchers want to stem the outbreak is to vaccinate local sex workers.
It remains to be determined whether existing vaccines will work for the new strain.
But smallpox vaccines -- which are cheap, widely available in many countries, and can work for mpox -- have not been made available in Kamituga, Udahemuka said.
Researchers in Africa have been calling for DR Congo to get access to the vaccines and treatments used against mpox in much of the world during the global outbreak.
Because if this strain spreads further it will cause "really great damage," Murhula Masirika warned.
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