Africa CDC Reports Surge In Sierra Leone Mpox Cases

Reuters (5/8, Deng Bior) reports the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said Thursday that Sierra Leone reported 384 confirmed mpox “cases in a week, representing 50.7% of all of Africa’s cases.” Africa CDC official Ngashi Ngongo said in an online briefing that “Sierra Leone, which declared mpox a public health emergency in January, has seen a 63% jump in confirmed cases in just one week.” He explained that “funding was the main issue, but added that contact tracing and laboratory capacity also needed to be improved.”