Sodiq Ojuroungbe With the resurgence and spread of mpox across the globe, maternal health experts have advised pregnant women to adhere to public health advisories to avoid being infected with the viral infection. The gynaecologists stated that positive pregnant women could transfer the disease to newborns through the placenta. They warned that babies born to mothers with the infection were at risk of experiencing severe symptoms, including skin lesions, fever, and respiratory problems.
Speaking in separate interviews with PUNCH Healthwise, the reproductive health experts stressed the need for pregnant women to take precautions to avoid getting infected. This warning comes as Mpox continues to spread in Africa and some parts of Europe with cases reported in several countries. Recently, the Africa Centre for Disease Control declared a public health emergency over the growing mpox outbreak on the continent.
The outbreak has swept through several African countries, particularly the Democratic Republic of Congo. https://healthwise.punchng.
com/risk-of-mpox-spreading-to-neighbouring-countries-high-says-africa-cdc/ There is a serious and growing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that has now expanded outside the country. A new viral strain, which first emerged in September 2023, has, for the first time, been detected outside DRC. The World Health Organisation stressed that the emergence last year and rapid spread of a new virus strain in DRC, clade 1b, which appears t.